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Simplifying Android Development with Coroutines and Flows

Simplifying Android Development with Coroutines and Flows

By : Jomar Tigcal
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Simplifying Android Development with Coroutines and Flows

Simplifying Android Development with Coroutines and Flows

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By: Jomar Tigcal

Overview of this book

Coroutines and flows are the new recommended way for developers to carry out asynchronous programming in Android using simple, modern, and testable code. This book will teach you how coroutines and flows work and how to use them in building Android applications, along with helping you to develop modern Android applications with asynchronous programming using real data. The book begins by showing you how to create and handle Kotlin coroutines on Android. You’ll explore asynchronous programming in Kotlin, and understand how to test Kotlin coroutines. Next, you'll learn about Kotlin flows on Android, and have a closer look at using Kotlin flows by getting to grips with handling flow cancellations and exceptions and testing the flows. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to build high-quality and maintainable Android applications using coroutines and flows.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Part 1 – Kotlin Coroutines on Android
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Part 2 – Kotlin Flows on Android

Exercise – using coroutines in an Android app

In this exercise, you will be working with an application that displays movies that are playing now in cinemas. You will be using The Movie Database API version 3 to get the list of movies. Go to https://developers.themoviedb.org/3 and register for an API key. Once you’ve done that, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Movie App project in the Chapter02 directory in this book’s code repository.
  2. Open MovieRepository and update apiKey with the value from The Movie Database API:
    private val apiKey = "your_api_key_here" 
  3. Open the app/build.gradle file and add a dependency for kotlinx-coroutines-android:
    implementation ‘org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-
      coroutines-android:1.6.0’

This will add the kotlinx-coroutines-core and kotlinx-coroutines-android libraries to your project, allowing you to use coroutines in your code.

  1. Also, add the dependencies for the ViewModel extension...
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