`withContext(EmptyCoroutineContext) { .. }` basically does nothing right?

zak.taccardi

07/31/2020, 4:54 PM

withContext(EmptyCoroutineContext) { .. }

basically does nothing right?

Sam Garfinkel

07/31/2020, 4:54 PM

I believe so, yes.

tseisel

07/31/2020, 7:02 PM

It actually does ! While it does not imply a context switch,

withContext

will suspend until all its children coroutines complete. That behaviour is very similar to the

coroutineScope

block.

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