Why Are Coroutines Useful?

Coroutines are useful to implement producer/consumer patterns. For example, Python introduced coroutines in a language feature called generators, which was intended to simplify the implementation of iterators.

Why do we use coroutines?

A coroutine is a concurrency design pattern that you can use on Android to simplify code that executes asynchronously. Coroutines were added to Kotlin in version 1.3 and are based on established concepts from other languages.

Why are coroutines better?

As Coroutines are written using standard Kotlin, this library is suitable for new Android projects since Google announced Kotlin as the new language for Android. ... Coroutines can significantly improve code performance and, as in Java and RxJava, there is the ability to use it as a stream.

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