Episode 117: Kotlin Coroutines

Android Developers Backstage

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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:33:16 +0000

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: right;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vTCYa5nGhoI/XTiibzWZmbI/AAAAAAAAKeY/RFagE7LC9AYB2VYv6xG5-waJyY1Y3U3OQCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20190710_150654.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vTCYa5nGhoI/XTiibzWZmbI/AAAAAAAAKeY/RFagE7LC9AYB2VYv6xG5-waJyY1Y3U3OQCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20190710_150654.jpg" width="320" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tor, Yigit, Sean, Romain and Chet doing their (co)routine.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Coroutines are Kotlin's approach to asynchronous programming and they are making their way into various Jetpack libraries. In this episode Tor, Chet and Romain have a chat with Sean McQuillan from DevRel and Yigit Boyar from the Jetpack team to discuss what coroutines are, what problems do they solve and how to use them.<br /> <br /> Subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage" target="_blank">podcast feed</a> or download the <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/ADB%20117%20Coroutines.mp3" target="_blank">audio file</a> directly.<br /> <br /> <b>Links</b>:<br /> <div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><a href="https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines-overview.html">Coroutines overview</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/coroutines-on-android-part-i-getting-the-background-3e0e54d20bb"> Sean's series of articles about coroutines on Android</a></li> <li><a href="https://developer.android.com/kotlin/coroutines">Coroutines for Android apps</a></li> <li><a href="https://developer.android.com/jetpack/">Jetpack</a></li> </ul> <b>Sean</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/objcode" target="_blank">@objcode</a><br /> <b>Yigit</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/yigitboyar" target="_blank">@yigitboyar</a><br /> <b>Chet</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/chethaase" target="_blank">@chethaase</a><br /> <b>Romain</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/romainguy" target="_blank">@romainguy</a><br /> <b>Tor</b>: <a href="https://twitter.com/tornorbye" target="_blank">@tornorbye</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i><i><br /></i><br /> <i>Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.</i></div> </div> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage/~4/oRqChvG3UIg" width="1" />