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Simplifying Android Development with Coroutines and Flows

You're reading from   Simplifying Android Development with Coroutines and Flows Learn how to use Kotlin coroutines and the flow API to handle data streams asynchronously in your Android app

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816243
Length 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Kotlin Coroutines on Android
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming in Android FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Kotlin Coroutines 4. Chapter 3: Handling Coroutine Cancelations and Exceptions 5. Chapter 4: Testing Kotlin Coroutines 6. Part 2 – Kotlin Flows on Android
7. Chapter 5: Using Kotlin Flows 8. Chapter 6: Handling Flow Cancelations and Exceptions 9. Chapter 7: Testing Kotlin Flows 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exercise 5.01 – Using Kotlin Flow in an Android app

For this exercise, you will be continuing the movie app you worked on in Exercise 4.01 – Adding tests to coroutines in an Android app. This application displays the movies that are currently playing in cinemas. You will be adding Kotlin Flow to the project by following these steps:

  1. Open the movie app you worked on in Exercise 4.01 – Adding tests to coroutines in an Android app in Android Studio.
  2. Go to the MovieRepository class and add a new fetchMoviesFlow() function that uses a flow builder to return a Flow and emits the list of movies from MovieService, as shown in the following snippet:
    fun fetchMoviesFlow(): Flow<List<Movie>> {
        return flow {
            emit(movieService.getMovies(apiKey).results)
        }.flowOn(Dispatchers.IO)
    }

This is the same as the fetchMovies() function, but this function uses...

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