Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

Getting ready

The first step to start working with Kotlin Coroutines is to add the core-framework dependency to the project:

implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core:0.23.3' 

Apart from the Coroutines core dependency, we will need to add one of the framework-specific coroutines sub-modules, providing the coroutine-context implementation responsible for dispatching the coroutine on the UI thread. You can find the list of coroutines' framework sub-modules in the official guide: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/ui/coroutines-guide-ui.md. In this recipe, we are going to target the Android platform, however, you can easily port the sample code to one of the supported frameworks such as, Android, Swing, ...