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what is the best way to pre populate a textfield in compose but remember the following state?

You mean like this
```  var text by remember { mutableStateOf("initial") }
  TextField(text, onValueChange { text = it })    ```

what Allan said OR.
composables should be function of state. so you can emit initial state with data you want to pre populate with

wouldn't normally use TextFieldValue for this?

both are fine. `TextFieldValue`  has some additional features, like text selection. Just use `String` if that works for you.