Would you collect a Flow (not StateFlow) in a comp...
# composel
Lilly
04/15/2022, 10:03 PMWould you collect a Flow (not StateFlow) in a composable or collect it in viewmodel and expose it as snapshot (MutableState) field?
e.g. your business logic emits a constant flow of progress values to show a ProgressIndicator in UI
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Michael Paus
04/16/2022, 9:19 AMWhy would you want to do that and make things complicated? Isn’t the progress naturally a state which happens to change over time? What would your ProgressIndicator show before it has received the first progress value. Just using a StateFlow looks much more natural to me. Just my two €ent.
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Lilly
04/16/2022, 9:37 AM@Michael Paus StateFlow:
Updates to the value are always conflated.Conflation:
When a flow represents partial results of the operation or operation status updates, it may not be necessary to process each value, but instead, only most recent onesIsnt that a problem?
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Michael Paus
04/16/2022, 10:22 AMDoes it make a difference for a ProgressIndicator? I think not. It always displays the current value of your progress.
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Lilly
04/16/2022, 11:25 PMI guess skipping some values is negligibly. I will try it, thanks.
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