Kotlin Tutorial #17: Coroutines — launch, async, and Structured Concurrency
In the previous tutorial, you learned about sequences. Now let’s learn about coroutines. Coroutines are Kotlin’s way of writing asynchronous code. They let you write code that looks synchronous but runs without blocking threads. Watch the Video: Prefer watching? Check out the video version of this tutorial on YouTube. In this tutorial, you will learn: Suspend functions launch — fire and forget async/await — get a result Dispatchers coroutineScope Structured concurrency Jobs and cancellation Timeouts Practical examples What Are Coroutines? A coroutine is a lightweight thread. You can run thousands of coroutines on a single thread. Unlike threads, coroutines are cheap to create and do not block the operating system thread they run on. ...