
Mastering Kotlin for Android 14
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In this section, we will refactor our repository to use coroutines. We will use StateFlow
to emit data from ViewModel
to the view layer. We will also use the Dispatchers.IO
dispatcher to perform our network requests on a background thread.
Let us start by creating a NetworkResult
sealed class
, which will represent the different states of our network request:
sealed class NetworkResult<out T> { data class Success<out T>(val data: T) : NetworkResult<T>() data class Error(val error: String) : NetworkResult<Nothing>() }
The NetworkResult
class is a sealed class that has two subclasses. We have the Success
data class that will be used to represent a successful network request. It has a data property that will be used to hold the data returned from the network request. We also have the Error
class, which will be used to represent a failed network request. It has an error...