Bill Phillips works on account access infrastructure on Cash Android. He also maintains coroutines runtime and testing infrastructure, and is a contributor to Turbine.
Bill Phillips
Software Engineer, Cash App
Coroutines, Flow & Android: The Good Parts
In Kotlin Coroutines and Flow, there are many APIs and patterns that we have found either wrong or suboptimal in our work at Cash App and Square. You can’t build a complete application without these features, but our experience with coroutines at all levels of our applications has shown that not every part of Kotlin’s API is created equal for day-to-day use, nor is everything safe to use in all combinations. The good news is that we’ve also found that there is a bright and clear path: a core set of APIs and approaches (plus some small safety utilities around them) that we wholeheartedly endorse. We call these the “good parts” of coroutines, and if you use them you can write simpler control flow, more bulletproof error handling, and easy-to-understand concurrency.