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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

Creating Flows with Flow builders

In this section, we will start by looking at creating Flows. To create a Flow, you can use a Flow builder.

The Kotlin Flow API has flow builders that you can use to create Flows. The following are the Kotlin Flow builders you can use:

  • flow {}
  • flowOf()
  • asFlow()

The flow builder function creates a new Flow from a suspendable lambda block. Inside the block, you can send values using the emit function. For example, this fetchMovieTitles function of MovieViewModel returns Flow<String>:

class MovieViewModel : ViewModel() {
    ...
    fun fetchMovieTitles(): Flow<String> = flow {
        val movies = fetchMoviesFromNetwork()
        movies.forEach { movie -> 
            emit(movie.title)
    &...
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