Some Random Dude Yeah it always remains active unless it's shut down properly. There is a method, shutDown() by which this can be achieved.

Shreyas Patil Some Random Dude U can do that but if you are calling suspend functions from retrofit or room(Which internally usages their own threapool ) , you will end up calling all methods , bcz your dispatcher will get free as soon as Retrofit or room suspend your function. So both have diff usecase.Correct me if my understanding is wrong.

Prateek Kumar

I didn't get this "you will end up calling all methods". Also, when we call methods of Room and Retrofit, we don't need to switch context since we know that these libs have their own thread-pool dispatchers under the hood. So there is no sense in switching the context