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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Kotlin Programming Cookbook Explore more than 100 recipes that show how to build robust mobile and web applications with Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Android

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788472142
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aanand Shekhar Roy Aanand Shekhar Roy
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Rashi Karanpuria Rashi Karanpuria
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installation and Working with Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Control Flow 3. Classes and Objects 4. Functions 5. Object-Oriented Programming 6. Collections Framework 7. Handling File Operations in Kotlin 8. Anko Commons and Extension Function 9. Anko Layouts 10. Databases and Dependency Injection 11. Networking and Concurrency 12. Lambdas and Delegates 13. Testing 14. Web Services with Kotlin 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

How to use coroutines to achieve multithreading

Coroutines are a great language feature in Kotlin. Here's an apt definition of coroutines according to the documentation:

"Coroutines are a new way of writing asynchronous, non-blocking code (and much more)."

It's not just the ease of use, it's much more powerful than threads, especially in the case of a mobile environment where even milliseconds of performance gain is appreciated. Spawning multiple threads can cause performance issues, which isn't the case with coroutines since there can be thousands of those running without much drop in performance levels.

The following is what the official documentation of Kotlin says:

"One can think of a coroutine as a lightweight thread. Like threads, coroutines can run in parallel, wait for each other, and communicate. The biggest difference is that coroutines...
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