Hey all! I have a coroutines question that I've been struggling with. I am making a network request in the following way:

fun fetchCharacterData(): Deferred<CharacterGenerator.CharacterData> {

return GlobalScope.async(Dispatchers.Default) {

val apiData = URL(CHARACTER_DATA_ENDPOINT).readText()

CharacterGenerator.fromApiData(apiData)

}

}

Then, in my main activity, I do the following within `onCreate()`:

generateButton.setOnClickListener {

GlobalScope.launch(Dispatchers.Main){

characterData = fetchCharacterData().await()

displayCharacterData()

}

}

However, I am getting an ANR whenever the button is pressed. I also get a very vague error message in logcat: FATAL EXCEPTION: main. Would anyone have any insight as to what the issue could be?

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Thanks @Chainchelliah! Getting much more help now in that channel, appreciate the guidance 🙂