Overview of Kotlin Coroutines
Explore how Kotlin coroutines simplify asynchronous code execution in Android applications. Understand suspending functions, learn about coroutine scopes, and see how to enhance app responsiveness by running long tasks without blocking the UI. This lesson also covers adding necessary Gradle dependencies for Kotlin coroutines.
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Introduction
Kotlin coroutines make it easier to write asynchronous code for Android applications. It’s a lightweight solution that reduces memory leaks and comes with native Android Jetpack integration. We can execute long-running tasks on an I/O thread without blocking the application’s UI thread.
Popular programming languages support the async and await paradigms. Coroutines provide a similar asynchronous code execution capability by suspending functions. Suspending a function allows us to ...