Hello folks, I have a question regarding `iosMain` because it says we can use ios spesific API insid...

# multiplatform

[Crul]

Hello folks, I have a question regarding iosMain because it says we can use ios spesific API inside it. Can we use DispatchQueue inside iosMain ? (If you don't know, DispatchQueue is the common ios API that we use for background processing stuff)

[Crul]

Somehow I can't find a way to import and use it in iosMain

[Jeff Lockhart]

Yes, you can. But note, the API is not the Swift API. The type is dispatch_queue_t in Objective-C.

[Jeff Lockhart]

For example:

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT.convert(), 0.convert())) {
    // some background work
}

[Crul]

Nice, thanks for the example @Jeff Lockhart. Btw I'm curious, what should we do if we want to do API call inside dispatch_async(){} ?, should we launch a coroutine first ?

[Andrew Reed]

i wouldnt mix both dispatch queue and coroutines, it sounds like it could get very tricky to debug.

[Andrew Reed]

why wouldnt you just use coroutines in KMP scope