Add Stable Coroutines to Android-Kotlin Project

We will see, how can we add the latest stable version of Coroutines to Android project.

This article is a part of “Android Kotlin Coroutines: Basic Terminologies & Usage” article.

Updated (30 Oct 2018) for stable Kotlin plugin v1.3.
Note: Now onward, this post will not be updated unless required. So, it would be better if you add required dependencies from the official doc: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines

Here we are going see the steps involved in adding the stable version of Coroutines included in Kotlin v1.3.

Android Studio:
Step 1. Go to Tools → Kotlin → Configure Kotlin Plugin Updates, select “Stable” in the Update channel drop-down list, and then click Check for updates.

Step 2. Add following lines to your project level build.gradle
(As EAPs are not public we need to add private URL)

dependencies {
    //...
    classpath 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.3.0'
}

Step 3. Add following lines to your app/module level build.gradle
We are adding coroutines-core along with coroutines-android.

dependencies {
    //...
    implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core:1.0.0'
    implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android:1.0.0'
}

Now, sync your project with gradle files and you are ready use the latest Coroutines.

Thanks for reading!
Rohit Surwase

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