https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/prefer-storing-data-with-jetpack.html
With the new DataStore library, it makes me wonder - will incorporating first party support for coroutines in new jetpack libraries be the path Google wants to follow now? I mean, most of the time we had sidekick libraries for coroutines/rxjava support and now the DataStore api is built with
but still, having a first (?) library with direct coroutines based api is an interesting step
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Giorgos Neokleous
09/07/2020, 1:52 PM
In IO2019, @yigit mentioned that Jetpack will have "First class Coroutines support"
https://youtu.be/BOHK_w09pVA▾
I am not sure about the DataStore API, but I would expect some kind of ktx version for interop with other reactive frameworks (RX). The library is still in early stages, so I maybe on the first iteration they are gathering feedback before extending the API