How to use Anko to run background tasks with Kotlin in Android

Anko is a library created by the JetBrains team, which makes Android development quite easy with the help of many helper functions that abstract a lot of complexity and provides you easy-to-use methods. One such thing is to deal with background tasks. Using Anko, we can work with background tasks very easily. In this recipe, we will learn how to work with background tasks using Anko.

Getting ready

We will be using Android Studio 3.0 for coding purposes; ensure that you have its latest version. You need to add Anko to your build.gradle file, as shown:

implementation "org.jetbrains.anko:anko:$anko_version"

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