So I'm curious about something: I'm trying to crea...

# coroutines

[alexcouch]

So I'm curious about something: I'm trying to create a way so that different threads take input but only one thread is active at a time and I can switch between the threads and whatever input is taken goes to that thread. I'm not quite sure how to do it. I kinda did it using the JDK Thread api but it's not quite working out as well as I was hoping cause I need to keep input coming in until the active thread is changed and then the input is sent into the new active thread. I tried to look into coroutines but that only confused me even more. Any ideas?

[alexcouch]

Nevermind, I forgot about scheduled executors

[Dico]

If scheduled executors are the answer to your question, I certainly didn't understand it.
However, by implenenting your own CoroutineDispatcher, you get to write the code that submits tasks to executors.

The easiest way to do this would be like so:

[Dico]

```

[Dico]

class MyCoroutineDispatcher(override var executor: Executor) : ExecutorCoroutineDispatcherBase()
val DISPATCHER = MyCoroutineDispatcher(Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor())

[Dico]

Now you can modify the executor used. It might be a good idea to mark the executor property @Volatile.
By using only single threaded executors, you can control exactly which thread is used.