hello guys. I am retrieving a signed-in user from room database with the intention of updating views in compose. how should i store the user? I have tried remember{} but am getting the error:

Required:

MutableState<User.Companion>

Found:

User

var user by  rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf(User) }

val systemUiController = rememberSystemUiController()
SideEffect {
    systemUiController.setStatusBarColor(
        color = PrimaryColor
    )
}

LaunchedEffect(key1 = context){
    viewModel.userResults.collect{ event ->
        when(event){
            is Resource.Success ->{
                  event.data?.let {// user from room database
                     user = it // It throws an error here
                 }
            }
            is Resource.Error ->{
                Toast.makeText(context, event.message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
            }
        }

    }

If you show the type of

var user

explicitly you’ll see that it’s of type

User.Companion

since you’re initializing it as such when you do

mutableStateOf(User)

. You have to decide what the type of

user

will be first. If you want it to be a nullable User object maybe you want to do

var user by rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf<User?>(null) }

.

I got a way around it. My problem was in the viewModel. I was using channels instead of mutableStateFlow so that i could collectAsFlow on the composable. Had to dig deep to understand to type of flows.Thanks for comming through.