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Take a good look at the current state of coroutines support in Android libraries and tools, explore some interesting and not-so-obvious edge cases when dealing with Kotlin code that includes coroutines and interop with Java, and briefly look at some new developments in Kotlin coroutines, namely StateFlow and its comparison with LiveData, and SharedFlow.

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  6. Liran Barsisa on

    How do you cancel a job via kotlin coroutines, in the same way you can do for AsyncTask?
    For when you have AsyncTask instance, you have a choice, of canceling with and without interruption.
    ON kotlin coroutines, I can see that you have to choose it when you create it. Is it correct?

  7. Kirill on

    I used to write Android apps on Java but two years ago I switched to Flutter on Dart.

    And never regretted since then. Everything is so much easier in Flutter.

    I remember how AsyncTasks first appeared and became recommended, now its deprecated… I'm tired of it frankly speaking.

    Why should I learn Kotlin? Why should have created new programming language just for Android?
    Kotlin is not used anywhere else

  8. ViTO Rossonero on

    Snippet at 4:11 has an error:
    Single.just(readFromDb())
    .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())

    is actually equivalent of
    Single.just(readFromDb())
    .observeOn(Schedulers.io())
    thus readFromDb() will be ran on the thread createWork is called(main?).
    And it's not about RxJava, it's about Kotlin(or Java): to call a function(Single.just) we have to calculate its parameters first.

  10. Joaquim Ley on

    Is it just me or in the first example the:
    val dbData = readFromDb()
    should've been "data"?
    Looks like you are "uploading" to the remote server, the variable is called "data" and it isn't declared in the fun's scope?

  11. bompf on

    So what is the rule for collecting flows in UI controllers? asLiveData().observe(..) when I want to observe hot streams as cold flows and lifecycleScope.launchWhenStarted when I observe e.g. database?