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Concurrency in Kotlin
“Juggling is an illusion. . . . In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. . . . It is actually task switching.”
Gary Keller
Since the emergence of multicore processors, concurrency has become an omnipresent topic. However, concurrency is hard and comes with a list of hard-to-debug problems. This chapter briefly introduces the basic concepts surrounding concurrency, introduces Kotlin’s coroutines as a unique approach to concurrency, and shows how to represent a variety of asynchrony and concurrency patterns with coroutines.
Concurrency
In today’s world of REST1 APIs and microservices, concurrency and asynchrony play a central role for developers. On Android, apps may not actually ...
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