How do I call a @Composable function from within LiveData's observe method?

You don't; a LiveData observer is an imperative event callback and a

@Composable

function is declarative. LiveData observers are about applying changes when data changes occur, but a Compose composition is already an engine for doing this. Check out the

LiveData.observeAsState

extension function; you can call it from inside of a

@Composable

instead of manually adding observers to the LiveData.

Is there anywhere else to look up api references, developer.android.com is taking forever with its searches

that's the source of truth for the docs. Where are you searching from? curious what might be going on if search there is taking a while

Top of the page, tried looking manually in the api reference page and couldn't find it. Found this article though https://luboganev.dev/post/observe-as-state-is-the-new-postvalue/

The search at the top of the page shows me this for the search query observeAsState:

I'm seeing it just spinning

hm, interesting. Any extensions? It comes back pretty quick for me using chrome or firefox, uBlock origin, privacy badger active

The only shared extension between (its Firefox browser) the browers on my phone and desktop is uBlock