
SE Radio 558: Michael Fazio on Modern Android Development
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How to Use Coroutines for Asynchronous Development
Coroutines are lightweight threads, but in the background, they're really able to run on any type of thread. This is similar to what people think of as async await in a C-sharp or JavaScript. You can run whatever you want in that coroutine block. It's this really, really nice way to handle asynchronous development while not having to worry about so many of the pieces where they move around.
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