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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)

The coroutine context

The execution of a coroutine always happens inside a context. This context is a group of elements that will allow us to define how the coroutine will be executed and how it should behave. Let's start by talking about some of the contexts that we have already seen.

Each of the items in the context can be considered a context with a single element, that is, a context with a single behavior defined. As explained, a context can actually contain more than one element, so in the next section we will learn how to add and remove elements from a context to create combined behaviors. But for now, we want to talk about them as individual contexts to better explain how they work by themselves.

Dispatcher

Dispatchers...