How to show an emptyView with no items in compose paging. It seems impossible. We have to skip the condition for initial load (which the itemCount == 0). Also we cannot rely on endOfPaginationReached because the page can load from any position. Why is this api so hard ?

Just write your own paging, it's one list, one lambda function and one page variable, paging library is a nightmare to manage, even paging3 has some quirks you need to work around them, like multiple if clauses if pagination is impossible anymore because you reached the end, checking if initial load didn't return content etc... Manually you'd have only one boolean value isLoading and less frustrations

Indeed. All that extra boilerplate no1 asked. The combinedLoadState mess with 500k diferent states. So anoyibg

Is your problem just with the initial load? There's an open bug on that where it defaults to NotLoading vs what it should be starting at (Loading)

Ya i get that. But the basic thing, showing an empty view if no items are present is kinda hard to achieve.

Hey. Have you tried writing something like this?

if (lazyPagingItems.itemCount == 0) {
    EmptyUI()
} else {
    LazyColumn(…)
}

yep, or if you want to take loading into consideration:

val loadState = lazyPagingItems.loadState
val finishedLoading =
  loadState.refresh !is LoadState.Loading &&
  loadState.prepend !is LoadState.Loading &&
  loadState.append  !is LoadState.Loading
if (lazyPagingItems.itemCount == 0 && finishedLoading) {
  EmptyUI()
} else {
  LazyColumn(...)
}

first one doesnt work. Paging always start with itemCount == 0, i dont want to show the emptyView for a split second

like I said, there's a bug where Paging starts at

NotLoading

, when it really should be

Loading

until the first set of data comes back: https://issuetracker.google.com/224855902

I have the same problem too, Did you find any solution for this?