Correct me if I’m wrong but the latest `2.4.0` release uses alpha version of androidx.lifecycle lib...

# orbit-mvi

[Oleksii Malovanyi]

Correct me if I’m wrong but the latest 2.4.0 release uses alpha version of androidx.lifecycle library. I have a wish and a request to write about things like this (alpha/beta versions of 3rd party dependencies) in release notes, maybe even with extra exclamation marks ⚠️ E.g. for us it’s a blocker to update orbit to 2.4.0 as we don’t have much faith in google’s alpha-beta quality…

[appmattus]

We can certainly update release notes to say as such.

We were left in a bit of a predicament with the use of that version for the observe function. You can force the library to use an older version and everything except that will work just fine.

The reason for the need is unless you’re going to replicate the functionality of repeatOnLifecycle it’s the only correct way to observe the streams - more so for side effects. For background see https://link.medium.com/dNGujhSFAib

[Mikolaj Leszczynski]

Good point @Oleksii Malovanyi, I’ve updated the release notes https://github.com/orbit-mvi/orbit-mvi/releases/tag/4.2.0

[Oleksii Malovanyi]

Thanks guys! Thanks for the tips as well -> sure I see the reason why you’ve picked up alpha version ahead of time, and while it’s your creation I respect you could do anything with it, and with no pressure there is just my wish to know about things like that as a client 👍

[Mikolaj Leszczynski]

that’s all fair, and we’ll keep this in mind for the future

[Mikolaj Leszczynski]

we hesitated ourselves to put this in so I’m sure most people would feel the same!

[Mikolaj Leszczynski]

PS the 4.2.0 release includes repeatOnSubscription which I think would be useful to you 😉

[Oleksii Malovanyi]

YAS metal I’ve noticed. I had this issue before and had to solve it on the “port” (android framework) side. Super cool feature