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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)

Suspending Fibonacci

The main topic of this chapter is data sources, so we will use a well-known sequence to get an implementation of suspending sequences and iterators: the famous Fibonacci sequence. I am sure that you have already written algorithms to calculate the Fibonacci sequence before, but this may be the first time that you will do so using suspending functions.

If you aren't familiar with it, the Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers in which each number is the result of adding the previous two.

You can see the first eight numbers of the sequence in the following image:

The objective that we have, then, is to write a function that returns numbers from that sequence on demand, and stays suspended between calls. We will first do an implementation with a sequence and then do a similar implementation with an iterator.

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