Channel/Flow support is missing for Room right now...

# coroutines

[ahulyk]

Channel/Flow support is missing for Room right now? Right?

[tseisel]

Yes. Would be nice to have Flow integration in a future release of Room.
For now, we can convert `Observable`/`Flowable` to Flow with asFlow() to achieve the same result.

[withoutclass]

https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/room-coroutines-422b786dc4c5

[withoutclass]

but, you could probably wrap up the coroutine support that room has with your own channel/flow

[withoutclass]

or...just use LiveData

[Icaro Temponi]

There's an ongoing PR to add first-class Flow support to DAO methods on Room:
https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/frameworks/support/+/944458
Now that the core Flow API has reached stable on 1.3-RC it shouldn't take long for it to be implemented

[Adam Powell]

Yeah we'd like to get this merged asap

[ahulyk]

LiveData can be easy converted to Flow

[Joaquim Ley]

Only issue I had with LiveData is it emits null when you observe, but yes with Kotlin is fairly easy 🙂

[Joaquim Ley]

No one said otherwise, but yes I agree.

[rkeazor]

Yea actually I misspoke lol. Just wanted to point there is a fundamental difference. Is there a timeline when Flow will reach stable?

[tseisel]

@rkeazor The time is now ! Flow has reached the stable status since 1.3.0-RC. Only some recent operators are still experimental.