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Testing is quite a fascinating topic in software development. On the one hand, writing tests takes time, and it might not feel as rewarding - you cannot show a test to a client as you can a new feature. On the other hand, writing tests is an integral...
As much as we had talked about cancellation in the last part, in this article, we will often touch upon exception handling. Since, as discussed previously, these two concepts use the same mechanism. That said, cancellation in the coroutines library i...
In Part 3, we have discussed structured concurrency, which was introduced to the coroutines library primarily as a solution to exception handling and cancellation. Because of that, these two concepts go hand in hand, and even though we will not focus...
If you watch a coroutines video dated before their stable launch in Kotlin 1.3, you might notice that the way coroutines were used in their "experimental" phase is a bit different from now. For example, at KotlinConf 2017, in his Introductions to Cor...
In my experience, CoroutineScope is one of the less understood parts of the coroutines library, even though it is one of the most important. In Android, we are spoiled with coroutine scopes kindly provided to us by lifecycle libraries, but for many d...
The CoroutineContext is the backbone of the coroutines library. Every coroutine you launch will have a context. However, given its nature and flexible API, it might prove pretty tricky to use it correctly. In Part 1 of my series about coroutines, I w...
I fell in love with Kotlin as soon as I switched to it from Java about 4 years ago. And although I was writing Kotlin code on a regular basis ever since, I didn't start using some of its more advanced features until quite recently. I wish I had start...
In my previous article Things you need to know before switching to Jetpack Compose, I discussed the basic principles of building UI using Jetpack Compose. Today, let's dive a little deeper into how layouts work in Compose and learn how to build a mo...
With the release of the stable version of Jetpack Compose just around the corner, here are some things you need to know before switching from the imperative, XML-based style for building UI, to the new Android’s toolkit for building native UI declara...