Pagination in Android with Paging 3
Overview Paging 3 concept introduced in the Android Jetpack component that helps you to display pages of data from a large number of data from local databases or remote data servers. By using the Paging 3 library, we can load a lot of data efficiently and seamlessly, only we will list or display the data based on user needs. The Paging 3 library is written entirely using Kotlin Coroutines. Advantages In-memory cache. Kotlin low and LiveData support. Error handling, refresh and retry capabilities. Loading partial data based on user needs reduces the usages of network bandwidth and system resources. Architecture The Paging library can easily integrate with recommended Android app architecture. The library's components communicate with three layers of the app: Repository ViewModel View Repository In the Repository layer, there is the PagingSource. The PagingSource defines a data source and how to retrieve data from the data source. Also, we can load ...