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Hello everyone!
Would :
```  private val _event = MutableSharedFlow&lt;S&gt;(extraBufferCapacity = 1)
    val event: SharedFlow&lt;S&gt; get() = _event.asSharedFlow()```
be a correct alternative to `Channels` for single shots events? Or would events would still be dropped if there are no subscribers

In my experience, without subscribers, calling `emit` will cause the event to be dropped.

This would make it wait for at least `n` subscribers:
```subscriptionCount.first { it &gt;= n }
emit(value)```

<https://proandroiddev.com/android-singleliveevent-redux-with-kotlin-flow-b755c70bb055>

This suggest of using Channels, which I know is a valid alternative, my question was if the snippet I shared could work as a replacement for Channels

In that post you can see a section about SharedFlow

```What about the use of SharedFlow? Can that help? Unfortunately, no. SharedFlow is hot. This means that during periods where the is no observer, say during a configuration change, events emitted on to the flow are simply dropped. Regrettably, this also makes SharedFlow inappropriate to emit events on.```