Is it ok to use

GlobalScope

for coroutines that need to be tied to the

Application

? There doesn't seem to be a

lifecycleScope

for it... or is it better to create a

CoroutineScope

and cancel it somewhere in the

Application

?

it’s ok

I would refer to https://medium.com/@elizarov/the-reason-to-avoid-globalscope-835337445abc by Roman to see the potential gotchas. Also consider how exceptions are handled in

GlobalScope

. See https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/exception-handling.html#coroutineexceptionhandler for how to handle exceptions yourself when using

GlobalScope

. Also notice that

viewModelScope

and

lifeCycleScope

implementations both use a

SupervisorJob

to handle exceptions in children, which you wouldn’t get in

GlobalScope

Those are good points, thanks!