Coroutines for Kotlin Multiplatform in practise

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Kotlin Multiplatform coroutines work, but only if code assumes the Kotlin/Native constraints: kotlinx.coroutines ships as JVM core vs native‑mt (Ktor forces native‑mt), default dispatchers on Native can be single‑threaded and there is no common IO dispatcher, so always inject dispatchers and test the “all dispatchers on one thread” case. Freeze mutable objects or use atomicfu/AtomicRef and freeze public API early. Expose suspend as completion handlers or convert flows to Combine publishers and manually propagate errors and cancellations; async/await on Swift is still main‑thread limited.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
2. 1:06Coroutines in multiplatform overview
3. 2:53Coroutines library choices
4. 4:16Dispatchers in shared code
5. 7:51Testing coroutines in common code
6. 9:58Kotlin Native memory model
7. 14:11Dangers of runBlocking
8. 18:22Coroutines on iOS basics
9. 22:34Exception handling in iOS
10. 23:38Consuming Kotlin Flows in Swift
11. 28:54Flows to Combine Publishers
12. 36:35Async/await in Kotlin Multiplatform
13. 39:48Summary and key takeaways

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