Kotlin Improving LiveData nullability in Kotlin Since its initial release more than two years ago, Android’s LiveData has been an incredibly popular, simple approach to safe-ish reactive programming. However, even though it was announced on the same day as Kotlin support, it is a Java library and doesn’t have perfect Kotlin interop. Part of
Kotlin Why your class probably shouldn’t implement CoroutineScope Prior to the introduction of CoroutineScope and Structured Concurrency, when we wanted to create a coroutine in a class we would do something like this: class SomeClass { fun fireAndForget() { launch { ... } } } When the coroutines team introduced Structured Concurrency, they changed the coroutine builder functions launch() and async() from being top-level to
Coroutines Eliminating Coroutine leaks in tests Coroutines are all the rage right now, and if you’re writing coroutines, you’re probably writing tests for them. Writing tests for coroutines can be difficult, not only because of concurrency concerns, but because it is very easy to create leaks which live on past the lifecycle of an
