In pre-Compose world, I have several dialogs where...

# compose-android

[Mark]

In pre-Compose world, I have several dialogs where I use suspendCancellableCoroutine to wait for the result of dialog confirmation. Can a similar approach be used with Compose or do I need to rethink the approach?

[Filip Wiesner]

Theoretically you can do something like that - Snackbar works this way. But Compose Dialogs are not designed to be used this way.

[Mark]

It just gets a bit tricky when there are consecutive dialogs

[Filip Wiesner]

Look at how Snackbar handled it. The .showSnackbar() there is suspending and waits for any previous Snackbars before showing