I use

compose-navigation

. I have a relatively heavy video player route which can be opened from a few other routes. Is there a way to always keep that route open in the background so it doesn't have to initialize every time? I just want to change the

videoId

used in the route every time its opened.

Sounds like a good candidate to hoist that expensive object up outside of your NavHost i.e., a VideoPlayerCache object that would reuse a video player instance upon request

I had to do something like this and basically just made it the background of my NavHost and just always kept it around. It was for a POC app, but that ended up working pretty well. If I wanted to show the video then I would just hit the playMethod and turn the background transparent of my current screen, which would show the background video. I was basically trying to do something like what spotify had a while back.

Okay thank you 🤔 Ill try what I can do.