I followed the tutorial for RxJava here: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/RxJava/article.html, and in an effort to fill in the gaps such as the missing code for MainActivity and the string list item, I was lead here. After adding the missing code from the tutorial, I compiled the app and the second Activity , ColorsActivity, only shows "red" even if there are 5 items in the generated from the getColorList() method.