Getting on the same page with Paging 3
Posted by Florina Muntenescu , Android Developer Advocate Getting on the same page with Paging 3 The Paging library enables you to load large sets of data gradually and gracefully, reducing network usage and system resources. You told us that the Paging 2.0 API was not enough - that you wanted easier error handling, more flexibility to implement list transformations like map or filter , and support for list separators, headers, and footers. So we launched Paging 3.0 (now in alpha02), a complete rewrite of the library using Kotlin coroutines (still supporting Java users) and offering the features you asked for. Paging 3 highlights The Paging 3 API provides support for common functionality that you would otherwise need to implement yourself when loading data in pages: Keeps track of the keys to be used for retrieving the next and previous page. Automatically requests the correct next page when the user scrolls to the end of the loaded data. Ensures that multiple requests aren’t triggere...