well nothing stops you from doing this, but then i...

# android

[defhlt]

well nothing stops you from doing this, but then it can be done with just an if and blocking: check for cache, if it's not there, make a synchronous retrofit call and stdlib's flatMap -- no need for rx. On the other hand if you already have observables, I can see where you are getting at, something like await { concat(cache, network).blockingFirst }. Doesn't seem to look simpler though