Is there a correct way to await safely? I'm inter...

# coroutines

[Christopher Mederos]

Is there a correct way to await safely?

I'm interacting with Firebase Auth methods that return Task<Void> and would like a way to synchronously execute them while catching certain exceptions they might throw. I'm having trouble finding the right terms to lookup some of the behaviour, so I'd appreciate anyone setting me in the right direction!

[Mikael Stockman]

If you add this dependency:

implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-play-services:1.4.1'

Then you can call await on Tasks like this:

try {
   task.await()
} catch (e: Exception) {
}

More info here:
https://developers.google.com/android/guides/tasks#kotlin_coroutine

[Christopher Mederos]

excellent - thank you for the example!