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# android

[Rafal]

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 Flow

[Rafal]

I know I can use things like https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/tree/master/reactive/kotlinx-coroutines-rx2

[Rafal]

but still, having a first (?) library with direct coroutines based api is an interesting step

[Giorgos Neokleous]

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

[Adam Powell]

https://developer.android.com/kotlin/coroutines

Coroutines is our recommended solution for asynchronous programming on Android.

[Adam Powell]

Yes, we will continue to expand the use of coroutines in jetpack APIs

[Adam Powell]

Paging3 is also heavily based on coroutines and Flow in particular

[Adam Powell]

#compose is heavily invested in it as well and will become more so