
Mastering Kotlin for Android 14
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Coroutines, introduced by JetBrains for Kotlin, provide a way to write asynchronous code in a more readable and synchronous manner. We can use them to perform background tasks and they are a great way to perform network requests and long-running tasks such as reading and writing to a database. They do these tasks off the main thread and ensure that we don’t block our main thread while performing these operations. The main benefits of using coroutines are as follows:
We have already added the core and Android coroutines libraries in our app. Let us understand some coroutines basics before proceeding to use coroutines in our project.
In this section, we will be looking at different...