Kotlin’s Coroutines allow the use of suspend functions, Channels and Flows and they all operate in the context of a so-called CoroutineScope. How can we tie it to the lifecycle management of our own components? If you are not at least somewhat familiar with what a CoroutineScope is, read this…

In my earlier article, we examined how exceptions are handled by Coroutines and Coroutine Scopes that run with a Job, which is the default way of running them, without any so-called supervision. Coroutines support Structured Concurrency, in which a parent-Coroutine that runs with a Job and its child-Coroutines all live…

Our code in Kotlin’s Coroutines may throw exceptions and managing them is not always as straightforward as we may think. Let’s examine the rules and offer some tips on how to deal with them. What is this blog post really about? We started building our app, we chose Kotlin and we decided to use Coroutines as our…

LiveData and ViewModels from the Android Architecture Component library are building blocks of the reactive MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) and MVI (Model-View-Intent) patterns when showing content in our app’s UI. But what about navigation? There are some issues we’d need to address and this article aims to help us with that. What is the problem? The…

This is an overview of the functions let, also, apply, run and with in Kotlin and a guide to how you can use them. This is not the first — and last — blog post on the Internet about the functions let, also, apply, run and with. They are part…

What is symmetrical and asymmetrical encryption and how do browsers use it to protect your data? Listen to a summary of this article on letsrecast.ai When you open your browser and you see the text in the address-bar that begins with https, where the s stands for secured, you are…