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Re:Ask HN: Expert Advices for New Learners in Android Kotlin... by muzani on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:31AM (#32376331)
Lifecycle is one of those things that earns a native mobile developer's salary. It's the selling point where native beats hybrid, as well as web.

The other might be threading. Kotlin Coroutines and Flow is incredibly powerful and one of the coolest things on any system. I wish this kind of thing was available for servers and such. I'd argue that Looper and Handlers are deprecated once you understand Coroutines and Flow. It's probably one of the things you can skip these days.

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Re:Ask HN: Expert Advices for New Learners in Android Kotlin... by origin_path on Sunday August 07, 2022 @12:05PM (#32377498)
Kotlin Coroutines works just fine on servers? What's the issue? BTW with Loom you won't need coroutines anymore, regular threads would work fine and be simpler/more scalable.
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