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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

By : Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres
Book Image

Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

By: Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a modern and statically typed programming language with support for concurrency. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, Learning Concurrency in Kotlin addresses the unique challenges in design and implementation of concurrent code. This practical guide will help you to build distributed and scalable applications using Kotlin. Beginning with an introduction to Kotlin's coroutines, you’ll learn how to write concurrent code and understand the fundamental concepts needed to write multithreaded software in Kotlin. You'll explore how to communicate between and synchronize your threads and coroutines to write collaborative asynchronous applications. You'll also learn how to handle errors and exceptions, as well as how to work with a multicore processor to run several programs in parallel. In addition to this, you’ll delve into how coroutines work with each other. Finally, you’ll be able to build an Android application such as an RSS reader by putting your knowledge into practice. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned techniques and skills to write optimized code and multithread applications.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Adding support for coroutines

Now that the project has been created, it's time to add coroutines support. To do this, open the Project section and double-click in build.gradle for the project. It is located inside the Gradle Scripts section:

The correct build.gradle file says Project: RssReader inside parenthesis

Inside this document, you will add a new variable to centralize the coroutines version. In a new line below ext.kotlin.version, add ext.coroutines_version, as shown here, for example:

buildscript {
ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.50'
ext.coroutines_version = '0.23.3'
...
}
Every time you modify the build.gradle files, Android Studio will ask for the configuration to be synchronized again. Until the synchronization is made, the changes will not be applied.

Now you need to add the dependencies for coroutines. Append the dependency configuration in...