What is the best way to achieve some periodic task...

# coroutines

[igorvd]

What is the best way to achieve some periodic task with coroutines?

I'm simply starting a coroutine with launch and using a while (isActive) with a delay. Is this the best approach?

[voddan]

You even don't need to check isActive. delay does it on its own

[voddan]

I would also recommend crating a separate thread pool for this coroutine to ensure that the threads are not blocked with something else

[withoutclass]

That's how I've done it, but now there is also ticker channel

[igorvd]

@voddan, cool. I created a newSingleThreadContext because I need only 1 thread for the task.

And it's nice to know that I don't need the isActive

@withoutclass I'll for sure check the ticker channel. But I'll be glad if you have an example for that 😃