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Isn’t it because you’re just blocking the entire UI thread until your call returns? `runBlocking` will wait until the block completes fully

So the progress won’t show, because the UI thread is blocked

Aight, that could make sense. I'm new to coroutines, so maybe I took bad approach. I thought getStudents() will get executed on a "separate thread".

<@U579VR96E> how could I not block the UI thread/rendering and still wait until getStudents() returns a result? Any suggestion what should I look into?

but anyways, it's confusing as showLoadingAnimation() is called before I'm calling runBlocking { getStudents() }

That’s how Android works. You’re calling `showLoadingAnimation` on the main thread, and this doesn’t immediately show progress, but enqueues an action to show it as soon as them main thread is available. But since you immediately call `runBlocking` on the main thread, the system doesn’t have an opportunity to show the progress.

Anyway you should look into coroutine scopes and run your action within some scope. I know there’s a convenient `viewModelScope` if you’re using `ViewModel`s