I use `compose-navigation` . I have a relatively heavy video player route which can be opened from a...

# compose

[YASAN]

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.

[YASAN]

This route's composable contains a video player object which takes ~5s to initialize fully and since its a video player app, its really annoying for the user to wait that time every time they want to watch another video.

[Ian Lake]

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

[Colton Idle]

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.

[Colton Idle]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1622488094461000?thread_ts=1622487890.460600&cid=CJLTWPH7S

[YASAN]

Okay thank you 🤔 Ill try what I can do.