Implementing the Jetpack Paging library
The Paging library comes with incredible features for developers. If your codebase is established and extensive, there are other custom ways that developers have created to help them load data efficiently. One notable advantage of Paging is its in-memory caching for your page’s data, which ensures your application uses the system resources efficiently while working with the already paged data.
In addition, it offers support for Kotlin coroutine flows and LiveData and has built-in deduplication, which ensures your application uses network bandwidth and resources efficiently, which can help save battery. Finally, the Paging library offers support for error handling, including when refreshing and retrying your data.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will need to create a new project; if you need to reference a previous recipe for creating a new project, you can visit Chapter 1, Getting Started with Modern Android Development Skills...