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When an async function is called, a Future is immediately returned and the body of the function is executed later . As the body of the async function is executed, the Future returned by the function call will be completed along with its result. In the above example, calling demo() results in the Future.

await is meant to interrupt the process flow until the async method has finished . then however does not interrupt the process flow (meaning the next instructions will be executed) but enables you to run code when the async method is finished.4 Şub 2019

When you await an asynchronous function, the execution of the code within the caller suspends while the async operation is executed. When the operation is completed, the value of what was awaited is contained within a Future object. Take a look at the simple program below.

Advertisements. An asynchronous operation executes in a thread, separate from the main application thread . When an application calls a method to perform an operation asynchronously, the application can continue executing while the asynchronous method performs its task.