AsyncTask in Android with Kotlin

Question

How to make an API call in Android with Kotlin?

I have heard of Anko . But I want to use methods provided by Kotlin like in Android we have Asynctask for background

Answer 1

You can get a similar syntax to Anko's fairly easy. If you just wan't the background task you can do something like

class doAsync(val handler: () -> Unit) : AsyncTask() {
    override fun doInBackground(vararg params: Void?): Void? {
        handler()
        return null
    }
}

And use it like

doAsync {
    yourTask()
}.execute()