Hey what is the desired way to launch coroutine in...

# android

[igor.wojda]

Hey what is the desired way to launch coroutine in the onReceive ? Is there any better way of doing it than this?

override fun onReceive(context: Context, intent: Intent) {
    val receivedData = intent.getIntExtra(DATA, DEFAULT_DATA)

    GlobalScope.launch {
            val receivedDataId = database.insertNewMessage(receivedData)
        }
}

[Jakub Syty]

GlobalScope is never the good answer 😄 Just create a new scope as property of the receiver class. Like private val scope = CoroutineScope(<http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO>)

[Wojtek Kalicinski]

Whichever scope you end up using, this has other problems, namely that launch returns immediately and once you exit onReceive there's potentially nothing to keep your BroadcastReceiver or your app alive.
You could use goAsync if you absolutely must do (async) work in onReceive, but ideally you should offload the work to a component that is better suited for it

[igor.wojda]

I get the idea, and I though worker will be enough, but thus is not the case, due to 10kb limit, so I am looking for a good alternative on how to pass data from onReceive to Worker

[Jasurbek Abdiroziqov]

You need to pass params only and inside WM you could decide what to do based on params you receive

[Swapnil Musale]

And if you concerned about WorkManager payload size to pass into it then use Local Database to save and retrive data inside WM