Hi everyone, just would like to ask which one is b...
# androidi
Icaro Temponi
09/30/2018, 3:49 PMHi everyone, just would like to ask which one is better to use when inside a Coroutine Context in a background Pool to run an operation on the UI Thead:
Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post{ /* running on UI here */ }
or
launch(UI) { /* running on UI here */ }
I'm maintaining a library with a lot of calls to the UI and don't know which to choose
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gildor
09/30/2018, 4:10 PMSure, use coroutine dispatcher
gildor
09/30/2018, 4:12 PMBut UI is deprecated, use Dispatchers.Main
Also, probably you don't need
launchwithContexti
Icaro Temponi
09/30/2018, 4:12 PMI see, thx, i'll start to use it 🙂
Icaro Temponi
09/30/2018, 4:13 PMIs it safe to swap all my Handler post usages to Main dispatcher? I'm wanting to use it as a standard
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gildor
09/30/2018, 11:17 PMShould be safe, I don’t see any potential issues. But if you have some problems with it just report an issue
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Icaro Temponi
10/01/2018, 2:57 AMOk, thx, I started to use only coroutines dispatchers everywhere and they are doing really well, coroutines are really awesome.
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gildor
10/01/2018, 3:35 AM@Icaro Temponi Just in case, if didn’t read “Coroutines Guide to UI programming” yet, I highly recommend to do that:
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/ui/coroutines-guide-ui.md
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