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Mastering Kotlin Coroutines

Channel Types

Explore the four main channel types in Kotlin coroutines: unlimited, buffered, rendezvous, and conflated. Understand their capacities and practical uses to manage data flow effectively between producers and receivers in concurrent Android applications.

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Depending on the capacity size we set, we distinguish four types of channels.

  • Unlimited: Channel with capacity Channel.UNLIMITED that has an unlimited capacity buffer, and send never suspends.

  • Buffered: Channel with concrete capacity size or Channel.BUFFERED (which is 64 by default and can be overridden by kotlinx.coroutines.channels.de ...