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Kotlin, as a language, provides only minimal low-level APIs in its standard library to enable various other
libraries to utilize coroutines. Unlike many other languages with similar capabilities, async and await
are not keywords in Kotlin and are not even part of its standard library. Moreover, Kotlin's concept
of suspending function provides a safer and less error-prone abstraction for asynchronous
operations than futures and promises.
kotlinx.coroutines is a rich library for coroutines developed by JetBrains. It contains a number of high-level
coroutine-enabled primitives that this guide covers, including launch, async and others.
This is a guide on core features of kotlinx.coroutines with a series of examples, divided up into different topics.
In order to use coroutines as well as follow the examples in this guide, you need to add a dependency on the kotlinx-coroutines-core module as explained
in the project README.
Table of contents
- Basics
- Cancellation and Timeouts
- Composing Suspending Functions
- Coroutine Context and Dispatchers
- Asynchronous Flow
- Channels
- Exception Handling and Supervision
- Shared Mutable State and Concurrency
- Select Expression (experimental)