What is the lifecycle of the `CoroutineScope` used by `LaunchedEffect`? If I run the following, the...

# compose

[eygraber]

What is the lifecycle of the CoroutineScope used by LaunchedEffect?

If I run the following, then the logs get printed even after my Activity stops:

LaunchedEffect(Unit) {
  while(true) {
    Log.e("TEST", System.currentTimeMillis().toString)
    delay(1_000)
  }
}

[Tash]

I wonder if this needs to be checking isActive otherwise this coroutine won’t support cancellation?

LaunchedEffect(Unit) {
  while(isActive) {
    Log.e("TEST", System.currentTimeMillis().toString)
    delay(1_000)
  }
}

[eygraber]

I think the delay would handle cancellation

[Stylianos Gakis]

It will, but always a good idea to do that instead of true so that if the code gets refactored in the future and the delay is removed, it's still supporting cancellation.

With that said, if you need the coroutine to follow the lifecycle, maybe you can try using the repeatOnLifecycle API inside there? You can fetch the lifecycle outside of the LaunchedEffect using the composition local of lifecycle

[eygraber]

This is contrived code. I'm just curious about what scope it uses (and I had a fruitless search through the source)

[Stylianos Gakis]

Probably starts the coroutine after the first successful composition is applied, and ends when this composable leaves the slot table. Aka it will live in the background too without using repeatOnLifecycle

[eygraber]

And it doesn't leave the slot table until the ComposeView is destroyed?

[Stylianos Gakis]

This is still me guessing, not on a computer to check right now, but I'd probably say yes

[eygraber]

Ok thanks! Now I need to figure out how it was still running in the background. I thought Android stopped background processing after a while, but this went on for almost 20 minutes straight.

[Stylianos Gakis]

Yeah modern phones have the capacity to run the app for a pretty long time afaik without killing it if you're not opening a lot of new apps. I don't think this is odd tbh