Now that we have covered the basics of concurrency, it's a good time to discuss the specifics of concurrency in Kotlin. This section will showcase the most differentiating characteristics of Kotlin when it comes to concurrent programming, covering both philosophical and technical topics.
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- Hello, Concurrent World!
- Coroutines in Action
- Downloading and installing Android Studio
- Creating a Kotlin project
- Adding support for coroutines
- Android's UI thread
- Creating a thread
- Adding networking permissions
- Creating a coroutine to call a service
- Adding UI elements
- Displaying the amount of news that were processed
- Using a UI dispatcher
- Creating an asynchronous function to hold the request... or not
- Summary
- Life Cycle and Error Handling
- Suspending Functions and the Coroutine Context
- Improving the UI of the RSS Reader
- Suspending functions
- The coroutine context
- More about contexts
- Summary
- Iterators, Sequences, and Producers
- Channels - Share Memory by Communicating
- Thread Confinement, Actors, and Mutexes
- Atomicity violation
- Thread confinement
- Actors
- Mutual exclusions
- Volatile variables
- Atomic data structures
- Actors in action
- Adding the label to the UI
- Creating an actor to use as a counter
- Increasing the counter as results are loaded
- Adding a channel so that the UI reacts to updates
- Sending the updated value through the channel
- Updating the UI on changes
- Testing the implementation
- Extending the actor to allow for resetting the counter
- Resetting the counter upon new searches
- Summary
- Testing and Debugging Concurrent Code
- The Internals of Concurrency in Kotlin
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