If I have a Stateflow is there a difference between

emit(newValue)

and

value = newValue

like there was for post/value in Livedata? I'm not seeing any documentation, I think we're supposed to use Emit, but using value = appears to be working in my code?

Emit will suspend in some cases. The kdoc on the function explains more. Setting the value property never suspends.

Cool, thanks for the info!

@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]

However MutableStateFlow never experiences back pressure (it always has “drop oldest” behavior), so emit will never suspend. It's just there because MutableStateFlow extends MutableSharedFlow

Inheritance🙁

yea 😞