Java, you often use Runnable, Callable and Future. With coroutines, you can use Deferred instead. These are objects that you can manage using the async/await functions. In this chapter, you’ll write code to understand when and how to use this pattern most effectively…

…suspendable functions you’ve seen how suspendable functions utilize Continuations to navigate around and return values as results. The next chapter, “Chapter 5: Async/Await”, relies heavily on the usage of functions which leverage continuations and suspendable functions to return values from code which may or may not be asynchronous…

…thread, and have it render. Or better yet, you can run the coroutine on the main thread, bridging to the background, using withContext or async/await, ultimately pulling the result back to the main thread for rendering. Using Dispatchers Now that you know which dispatchers are out there, it’s time…