Coroutines Cheat Sheet for Android Developers

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Welcome to yet another blog of our ongoing Android Interview Prep series. In this blog, we’ll be discussing about a really important concept in Android: Kotlin Coroutines. This coroutine cheat sheet serves as a quick refresher for anyone familiar with this powerful tool.

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1. Launching a Coroutine (launch)

• launch is used to start a coroutine without expecting a result.
• It’s usually used when you just want to fire and forget a task.

Example Usage:

2. Getting a Result with async

• If you need a result from a coroutine, async is your friend.
• async returns a Deferred object, which you can await to get the result.