On iOS I'm getting ```kotlin.IllegalStateException...

# kotlin-native

[Mikołaj Kąkol]

On iOS I'm getting

kotlin.IllegalStateException: There is no event loop. Use runBlocking { ... } to start one.

in my native tests when I try to run something like

GlobalScope.async { /* any code*/ }.await()

I'm running that code inside custom runBlocking implementation for iOS.

What is the go to solution? Should I use custom scope for spawning corutines? How do you test async/await on iOS/native?

[Mikołaj Kąkol]

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[Mikołaj Kąkol]

I'm getting that error also on final app. So it's not tests related issue.

[mbonnin]

You need to implement a dispatcher for ios

[mbonnin]

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/470

[mbonnin]

I used the Dispatcher from the KotlinConf app

[Mikołaj Kąkol]

thx, I'm also using this as my base, I'll take a look

[mbonnin]

And yes, define a new scope, GlobalScope uses the default dispatcher so it's not working

[Mikołaj Kąkol]

It worked, thx @mbonnin 🙂