Hey! How should we approach time-dependable UI with Jetpack Compose? Let's say I have a message in c...

# compose

[Yev Kanivets]

Hey! How should we approach time-dependable UI with Jetpack Compose? Let's say I have a message in chat and it has statuses (sending, sent, delivered). When it's delivered we should hide the message status in 5 seconds from its delivery time. Can I use System.currentTimeMillis() in if inside composable directly (I think it won't cause recomposition)? Or should I pass it as part of the state and change with old good timer? Or are there better approaches?

[hfhbd]

Just use LaunchedEffect with delay(5.seconds)

[Casey Brooks]

I'd steer clear of doing any computation like that directly within the composition, you're just asking for problems. That's what the various "effects" APIs are for. produceValue might be a good choice for this

val showStatus by produceState(true) {
    value = true
    delay(5000)
    value = false
}