VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
A suspending function is just a regular Kotlin function with an additional suspend modifier which indicates that the function can suspend the execution of a coroutine without blocking the current thread. This means that the code you are looking at might stop executing at the moment it calls a suspending function, and will resume at some later time. However, it doesn’t say anything about what the current thread will do in the meantime.
Suspending functions can invoke any other regular functions, but to actually suspend the execution, it has to be another suspending function.A suspending function cannot be invoked from a regular function, therefore several so-called coroutine builders are provided, which allow calling a suspending function from a regular non-suspending scope like launch, async, runBlocking.
