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Simplifying Android Development with Coroutines and Flows

By : Jomar Tigcal
Book Image

Simplifying Android Development with Coroutines and Flows

By: Jomar Tigcal

Overview of this book

Coroutines and flows are the new recommended way for developers to carry out asynchronous programming in Android using simple, modern, and testable code. This book will teach you how coroutines and flows work and how to use them in building Android applications, along with helping you to develop modern Android applications with asynchronous programming using real data. The book begins by showing you how to create and handle Kotlin coroutines on Android. You’ll explore asynchronous programming in Kotlin, and understand how to test Kotlin coroutines. Next, you'll learn about Kotlin flows on Android, and have a closer look at using Kotlin flows by getting to grips with handling flow cancellations and exceptions and testing the flows. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to build high-quality and maintainable Android applications using coroutines and flows.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Kotlin Coroutines on Android
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Part 2 – Kotlin Flows on Android

Further reading

This book assumes that you already have knowledge of testing Android applications. If you would like to learn more about Android testing, you can read Chapter 9, Unit Tests and Integration Tests with JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso, from the book How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin (Packt Publishing, 2021, ISBN 9781838984113). You can also check the Android testing documentation at https://developer.android.com/training/testing.

As of the time of writing, the coroutine testing library is still marked as experimental. Before the library becomes stable later, there might be some code-breaking changes to the classes. You can check the latest version of the library on GitHub at https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/tree/master/kotlinx-coroutines-test to find the latest information about the coroutine testing library.