i want to expose a

StateFlow

in my viewmodel that is backed by the

Flow

based jetpack DataStore. Any recommendations on how to do this without using

runBlocking

to get the initial value? i was thinking of calling a

suspend fun

to do this in my view model

init

, but then the

StateFlow

would not be available as soon as it is requested by the view

This API is forcing you to be very explicit about blocking your main thread for I/O if that's what you really want

agree, but is there a canonical way to solve this without blocking the main thread? perhaps just using a sensible default value for my case instead?

I would try to pick a sensible default value, yes.

ty

If you can't, you can always show a loading screen of sorts until you have a value loaded