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

# android

[Eric Womer]

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

[Adam Powell]

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.

[Eric Womer]

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

[Adam Powell]

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

[Eric Womer]

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/

[Adam Powell]

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

[Adam Powell]

are you seeing something different?

[Eric Womer]

I'm seeing it just spinning

[Adam Powell]

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

[Adam Powell]

(curious if there's anything interesting to report to our docs team here)

[Eric Womer]

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

[Eric Womer]

It maybe because I live behind a vpn constantly?

[Eric Womer]

Now its instant