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Coroutine Essentials

Coroutine Essentials

Discover the power of coroutines in Kotlin and learn how to make your applications perform tasks concurrently and in parallel. Join Rusty and his construction crew as they streamline construction projects – and see how you can apply these same techniques to your Kotlin code!
How to Prevent Race Conditions in Coroutines

How to Prevent Race Conditions in Coroutines

Techniques for managing shared mutable state in Kotlin coroutines, without getting race conditions.
Generic Variance

Generic Variance

Create subtypes from your parameterized types using Kotlin's generic variance. In this chapter, we'll learn about covariance, contravariance, and how they can be applied in declaration-site variance and use-site variance, based on three simple rules of subtypes.
Generics

Generics

Learn about Kotlin's generics, type parameters, type arguments, upper-bound constraints, and lots more in the 18th chapter of Kotlin: An Illustrated Guide.
Handling Runtime Exceptions

Handling Runtime Exceptions

Learn how to deal with problems in your Kotlin code at runtime. This chapter covers call stacks, stack traces, throwing and catching exceptions, 'finally' blocks, and how to use 'runCatching()' for a more functional approach.