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Shreyas Patil · 2025-04-02T12:22:06.752Z

Hi Androiders 👋, there's no doubt that Kotlin coroutines have become the standard in the Android world for multithreading and reactive programming. Coroutines are easy to use, but there's always something that feels a bit complicated. I often get qu...

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Hi Shreyas,

Thanks for this great article! Using Dispatchers.Main.immediate also helps prevent missing events during configuration changes, like device rotations. However, it would be helpful to mention the potential risks. Since immediate skips the event loop, any long-running operation executed on the main thread could lead to frozen frames and UI jank. Adding this information would make the article even more insightful!

Thanks Kalpesh.

any long-running operation executed on the main thread could lead to frozen frames and UI jank

Didn't mentioned this since it's applicable for main thread any way and it's not tied with Main or immediate. It can disrupt overall app's main thread. So considering that this is already known to the readers.

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Informative writeup!

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