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Nikhil
11/23/2020, 3:58 AM
What's the basic difference between Flow and Live data? Can anyone explain this with an example
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John O'Reilly
11/23/2020, 7:37 AM
this was a nice recent article about that
https://proandroiddev.com/should-we-choose-kotlins-stateflow-or-sharedflow-to-substitute-for-android-s-livedata-2d69f2bd6fa5
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Saul Wiggin
11/23/2020, 12:05 PM
The difference is that Flow is less closely coupled with the UI as LiveData. This means that it is possible to interact with the data layer more easily and deploy additional workers. It utilizes all the structured concurrency in coroutines
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Nikhil
11/23/2020, 1:13 PM
So you're saying Flow is better than LiveData?
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