What is the difference between launch/join and async/await in Kotlin coroutines

Question

In the kotlinx.coroutines library you can start new coroutine using either launch (with join) or async (with await<

Answer 1

Async vs Launch Async vs Launch Diff Image

launch / async no result

• Use when don't need result,
• Don't block the code where is called,
• Run in parallel

async for result

• When you need to wait the result and can run in parallel for efficiency
• Block the code where is called
• run in parallel