Is there an idiomatic way to expose state from a Service to the UI? My use case is in a live stream...

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[Chris Fillmore]

Is there an idiomatic way to expose state from a Service to the UI?

My use case is in a live streaming app with some complex, stateful, and tightly coupled signalling running in a Service. Some of this state needs to be exposed to the user. However, attempting to do so (e.g. through a ViewModel) leads to a lot of boilerplate, mapping Flows and such, and duplicating default/initial state. Any advice?

[Umar Ata]

You mean your service syncing data in background and you want to show something to the user based on data being synced?

[Junaid]

Preference datastore would work?