Geoffrey Métais

Koltinx Coroutines library implementation in Android development.

Presentation of coroutines integration and how it improved VLC on Android

Demonstration of kotlinx Coroutines framework use for application development.

Coroutines helped a lot to improve VLC app performances on Android. This talk is a feedback on this conversion and a collection of good practices.

We will see how it helped make the app more performant and maintainable. Especially the benefit of structured concurrency and how it greatly helps solving most asynchronism problems. Use your components lifecycle to scope asynchronous jobs. Get rid of callback APIs with Flow API. And some more examples of how to dismiss the GUI frameworks limitations with coroutines

Presentation of Kotlin Coroutines, a great new framework for asynchronism which makes it more powerfull and easier to manage.

Please note that this talk replaces one entitled "Experimenting with the Kotlin Compiler" that was due to have been given by Jossi Wolf, who has sent his apologies but is now unable to attend as he has fallen ill. We wish him a speedy recovery.

Kotlin coroutines is a Framework inspired by Go channels and C# await features. It introduces the principle of supending functions and enhances it with powerful tools like Channels and Flows.

In this talk I will present the Framework and its best practices, with code examples to show how to leverage it. This is a feedback of VLC-Android migration to coroutines which helped to improve threading capabilities, performances and helped suppress callback hells.