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Articles tagged with #coroutines
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...
