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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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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

Unit testing suspending functions

In this section, we will focus on how you can unit test your suspending functions. You can create unit tests for classes such as ViewModel that launch a coroutine or have suspending functions.

Creating a unit test for a suspending function is more difficult to write as a suspending function can only be called from a coroutine or another coroutine. What you can do is use the runBlocking coroutine builder and call the suspending function from there. For example, say you have a MovieRepository class like the following:

class MovieRepository (private val movieService:
  MovieService) {
    ...
    private val movieLiveData =
      MutableLiveData<List<Movie>>()
    fun fetchMovies() {
        ...
        val movies = movieService.getMovies...
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