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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627160
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Title Page
Copyright and Credits
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Preface
1. Hello, Concurrent World! 2. Coroutines in Action FREE CHAPTER 3. Life Cycle and Error Handling 4. Suspending Functions and the Coroutine Context 5. Iterators, Sequences, and Producers 6. Channels - Share Memory by Communicating 7. Thread Confinement, Actors, and Mutexes 8. Testing and Debugging Concurrent Code 9. The Internals of Concurrency in Kotlin 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Adding UI elements


Now  we can start adding some UI elements to do some testing. First, let's update the layout of MainActivity, which is located in res/layout/activity_main.xml. For now, just adding a ProgressBar will do, so let's replace the contents of the ConstraintLayout so that a ProgressBar is located in the middle of the screen:

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout ...>
    <ProgressBar
android:id="@+id/progressBar"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

By running the application, you will now only see the circular progress bar infinitely spinning. Let's use that spinner to see how the wrong handling of threads can affect the UI.

What happens when the UI is...

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