Kotlin flow map - make emit even if the value is same I want to know the kotlin flow flatMap working with jetpack compose I am having a flow for search and i am calling the api each time the search value changes. var search = MutableStateFlow("") And to call api var allItems = search.flatMapLatest{query-> flow{ emit(repository.getAllItems(query) } } It works perfectly fine , but excpet in one scenario. When the value of search is already "" an empty string, and i try to refresh the page , the code inside flatmap is not working...