Kotlin Programming Cookbook

How to do it…

Let's take look at the following steps required to make network requests in Kotlin:

1. Remember the huge pile of code we saw at the start of this recipe, just for performing a network request? All that can be replaced by just one line of Kotlin code. Let's take a look at the following code:

var response= URL("<url>").readText()

This will just return the response fetched from the network request that you made. You just need to provide your URL as the parameter.

While using this on Android, ensure that you have pushed this task in the background, or else you will get a NetworkOnMainThread exception.

2. The code that we want to execute asynchronously is wrapped under the doAsync block. Wrapping the code inside an async task is also ...