Overview of Kotlin Coroutines

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 ...