Mastering Kotlin

Thread

The Thread class maps directly to the programming concept of a thread of execution within a programming language. Multiple threads can be run at the same time. Therefore, we can create new threads to run code in a non-blocking way. Let's look at a simple example.

To start, we'll define a function called threadExample():

fun threadExample() {    println("Running threadExample()")        println("Finished threadExample()")}

Within that function, we've added log statements for when the function begins and ends. These are to help illustrate the non-blocking nature of the eventual Thread usage.

Next, we'll create, and start, a new Thread class:

fun threadExample() {    println("Running threadExample()")    val thread = Thread {        Thread.sleep(1000)        println ...