Somehow, the

withTimeout

doesn’t work on iOS without

runBlocking

. Is there another way round?

Nope. It requires an event loop from runBlocking or a custom main-thread only Dispatcher

@basher Thanks a lot. Maybe custom

NSRunLoop

works？ https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C3PQML5NU/p1551199801143200?thread_ts=1551199133.141600&cid=C3PQML5NU

You can try it! What is it you're trying to accomplish?

This is for general usage on the main thread or background?

Generally it is supposed to be backgroud. But we can use it on the main thread for now.

For main thread, if you can't use runBlocking and only need it on apple platforms, I would implement a CoroutineDispatcher that also implements Delay via GCD that only dispatches blocks to the main queue. Then, you should be able to use all of that. For background: github.com/autodesk/CoroutineWorker

Thank you so much. I tried with GCD on iOS and

Handler.postDelayed

on Android, and both work. I’ll take this way for now.