Synchronous and Asynchronous Programming
Modern programming demands efficient and responsive applications that can handle multiple tasks simultaneously without compromising the user experience. In this chapter, we’ll dive into one of the most fundamental and powerful aspects of Kotlin: asynchronous programming.
We’ll start by exploring the essential difference between synchronous and asynchronous programming, laying a solid foundation for understanding how Kotlin handles concurrent operations. We’ll see how synchronous code, while intuitive, can limit the performance of our applications in scenarios involving slow or resource-intensive operations.
We’ll then dive into suspended functions, a distinctive feature of Kotlin that allows you to write asynchronous code in an elegant and maintainable way. These functions are the cornerstone of concurrency handling in Kotlin, allowing us to write asynchronous code that looks and behaves like synchronous...
