What are COROUTINES

To overcome these challenges, developers traditionally turned to threads for handling background tasks. While threads offer a way to execute tasks concurrently, managing multiple threads can be resource-intensive and prone to errors due to out-of-memory and several other reasons.

Enter Kotlin Coroutines — a powerful and lightweight solution! Coroutines enable developers to write asynchronous code sequentially and structured, without the complexity of manually managing threads. By leveraging coroutines, developers can efficiently handle background tasks while keeping the main thread responsive, ensuring a seamless user experience.

The key difference between threads and coroutines in this scenario is how they manage concurrent tasks. Threads represent a single kitchen with multiple pans, where each pan cooks one dish at a time, leading to potential delays. On the other hand, coroutines represent multiple cooking stations, enabling you to handle various tasks simultaneously and switch between them seamlessly, resulting in a more efficient cooking process and smoother customer service.

Now implementing the same code using delay function:

if we try to use delay() in place of Thread.sleep(2000) in the main thread, it will give a compilation error, as delay() is a suspend function and can only be called by coroutines and suspend functions.

This can be solved using runblocking{} + delay() , so next we will see what is run-blocking lambda and its need.

Working of runBlocking:

INIT KOTLIN : )

Coroutines Masterclass :

Chapter-2(coroutines builders)

Chapter-3( coming soon)

Chapter-4( coming soon)

Chapter-5( coming soon)

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