Am I correct that `DisposableEffect` and `LaunchedEffect` are essentially the same except that they ...

# compose

[Vsevolod Ganin]

Am I correct that DisposableEffect and LaunchedEffect are essentially the same except that they use different methods to make the same thing: `DisposableEffect`’s block is blocking and disposes stuff with onDispose and `LaunchedEffect`’s block is suspending and disposes stuff with scope.cancel() ?

[Dominaezzz]

Are you actually allowed to call scope.cancel() ? I guess you could use awaitCancellation() .

[Dominaezzz]

Kinda, you can use one to awkwardly achieve the other but they are for quite different use cases.

[Adam Powell]

yes; mechanically very related but in conceptual usage they probably won't overlap terribly often

[Vsevolod Ganin]

My question arises from the animation API changes in alpha12 - all animateTo methods are changed to be suspending now. So I wonder if I can simply change old DisposableEffect with animateTo to LaunchedEffect with new animateTo :)

[Adam Powell]

yes 🙂 and the cleanup will be nicer since coroutine cancellation will do it for you