Using Kotlin Coroutines with Retrofit
Explore how to use Kotlin coroutines with Retrofit to perform asynchronous network operations in Android. Learn to define API interfaces with suspend functions, handle responses, and update the UI efficiently using coroutine scopes and dispatchers.
Introduction
We can use Kotlin coroutines to write asynchronous code in Android applications. The previous lesson outlined the noteworthy features of coroutines and discussed a few examples.
In this lesson, we’ll learn to use Kotlin coroutines with Retrofit. Earlier, we saw a simple usage of Retrofit with enqueue and callbacks. Instead of using enqueue and callbacks, we’ll use coroutines’ `suspend` feature for asynchronous execution.
Defining the data class
We’ll use an open-source API to ...