In this series of articles , we are discussing about Kotlin flows and in this article we will discuss about State Flow and Shared Flow.

Shared Flow

• shares emitted value to all collectors in a broadcast way

• all collectors receives all emitted values

• This flow is active regardless of active collectors

You can customize the SharedFlow behavior in the following ways:

• replay lets you resend a number of previously-emitted values for new subscribers.

• onBufferOverflow lets you specify a policy for when the buffer is full of items to be sent. The default value is BufferOverflow.SUSPEND, which makes the caller suspend. Other options are DROP_LATEST or DROP_OLDEST.

Code gist can be found in https://gist.github.com/vprabhu/adf153e7f3cbe6f5c39a4efe2c5d3400

State Flows

• emits a single updated value to its collectors

• current value can be accessed using value property

update{...}

• thread safe function to change the state

• excepts a block of code and this code block result is updated to value property which turns to be the updated value and this valueis emitted to all collectors

Code gist can be found in https://gist.github.com/vprabhu/3473f8c69375ba6271b57d426fcfacfd

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