Technical requirements

To run the code in this chapter, you will need to integrate the coroutines-core library. To do this, you should add the following line to the repositories block of the build.gradle file:

jcenter()

You should also add the following line to the dependencies block:

implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core:0.30.2'

Add the following line to integrate the kotlinx-coroutines-android library:

implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android:0.30.2'

If you are using a Kotlin version lower than 1.3, you should also add the following lines to the build.gradle file:

kotlin {
    experimental {
        coroutines "enable"
    }
}

To integrate Spring for the Android library, you should add the following lines:

implementation 'org.springframework.android:spring-android-rest-template:2.0.0.M3'
implementation...