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Connecting Coroutine Scope Functions

Connecting Coroutine Scope Functions

Learn about using functionalities from two coroutine scope functions and get an overview of some additional operations.

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If we need to use functionalities from two coroutine scope functions, we need to use one inside another. For instance, to set both a timeout and a dispatcher, we can use withTimeoutOrNull inside withContext.

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suspend fun calculateAnswerOrNull(): User? =
    withContext(Dispatchers.Default) {
        withTimeoutOrNull(1000) {
            calculateAnswer()
        } 
    }

Additional operations

Imagine a case where we need to execute an additional operation during some processing. For example, after showing a user profile, we want to send a request for analytics purposes. People often do this with just a regular ...