Is there an equivalent to

LiveData builder

in flow?

I'm not very familiar with

LiveData

(I haven't done Android development in years), but there is a builder for flows as well, such as:

flow {
    // suspend calls are OK here
    delay(100)
    emit(42)
}

Now

LiveData

seems to be more an equivalent for a

StateFlow

than a regular cold

Flow

that this builder would create. But you can always use

stateIn()

to convert your cold flow into a state flow (that will require an initial value though).

the

liveData {}

builder was modeled after kotlinx.coroutines'

flow {}

and

channelFlow {}

builders, so yes. 🙂