In this chapter, you’ll learn how to perform service calls (i.e., call external APIs) and how to do so efficiently. Few web apps operate in isolation, and most real-world web apps use a combination of a database and calls to external services to do their work.
If you’re new to Kotlin, here are some language features that you’ll see examples of in this chapter:
Using coroutines from different contexts
The difference between kotlin.coroutines and kotlinx.coroutines
Also in this chapter, you will ...
