What's the basic difference between Flow and Live data? Can anyone explain this with an example

# getting-started

[Nikhil]

What's the basic difference between Flow and Live data? Can anyone explain this with an example

[John O'Reilly]

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

[Saul Wiggin]

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

[Nikhil]

So you're saying Flow is better than LiveData?