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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627160
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello, Concurrent World! 2. Coroutines in Action FREE CHAPTER 3. Life Cycle and Error Handling 4. Suspending Functions and the Coroutine Context 5. Iterators, Sequences, and Producers 6. Channels - Share Memory by Communicating 7. Thread Confinement, Actors, and Mutexes 8. Testing and Debugging Concurrent Code 9. The Internals of Concurrency in Kotlin 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Improving the UI of the RSS Reader

This is a good moment to make our RSS Reader more user friendly. Let's update the application so that it displays the information of the news articles as a list that the user can scroll, and let's display not only the headline of the article but also a summary of it and the feed that it belongs to.

Giving each feed a name

First, let's start by creating a new package, model, so that we can organize our data classes, and let's create a Kotlin model.kt inside it, as shown:

We want to be able to identify a feed not only by its URL but also by a name, so let's now create a data class called Feed inside our new model file. This class will hold pairs of a name and a url...

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