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How to perform a heavy operation in background thread
Devrath edited this page Jun 15, 2021
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- This use case calculates the factorial of a number.
- The calculation is performed on a background thread using the default Dispatcher.
class CalculationInBackgroundViewModel(
private val defaultDispatcher: CoroutineDispatcher = Dispatchers.Default
) : BaseViewModel<UiState>() {
fun performCalculation(factorialOf: Int) {
uiState.value = UiState.Loading
viewModelScope.launch {
try {
var result: BigInteger = BigInteger.ZERO
val computationDuration = measureTimeMillis {
result = calculateFactorialOf(factorialOf)
}
var resultString = ""
val stringConversionDuration = measureTimeMillis {
resultString = convertToString(result)
}
uiState.value =
UiState.Success(resultString, computationDuration, stringConversionDuration)
} catch (exception: Exception) {
UiState.Error("Error while calculating result")
}
}
}
// factorial of n (n!) = 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * ... * n
private suspend fun calculateFactorialOf(number: Int): BigInteger =
withContext(defaultDispatcher) {
var factorial = BigInteger.ONE
for (i in 1..number) {
factorial = factorial.multiply(BigInteger.valueOf(i.toLong()))
}
factorial
}
private suspend fun convertToString(number: BigInteger): String =
withContext(defaultDispatcher) {
number.toString()
}
}