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Hi there,
recently I had need for some kind of a MutableLiveData, but easily integratable with Flows and without the Android dependency.
I came up with this solution, but I wonder, if there is a simpler solution. Any ideas?

You can use `chan.value` to get the most recent value. Conflated channel sends always succeed, therefore you can use `offer` instead of `send`

So 
 ```
var value
    get() = chan.value
    set(value) { chan.offer(value) }
```

Just invoke `chan.offer(initialValue)` in an init block

It seems like you could just use a typealias to ConflatedBroadcastChannel.

You’re right, much easier this way, thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

Also, there is work on DataFlow in progress:
<https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/pull/1354>