Android’s LiveData has a very handy behaviour: it only notify observers if the current Lifecycle is equal to ON_START or ON_RESUME.
Now that we have StateFlow with KMM, and create ViewModels that are platform agnostic (without LiveData). However, I’m struggling to simulate the same behaviour.
Is there a way to manually “pause” a job somehow and continue later in same point? For example, I could add a Lifecycle observer that pauses a Job when Lifecycle is not active (user can see the screen). I could also launch jobs but this could be problematic as I could redraw the UI unnecessary, for example.
I know we Android provides a viewLifecycleOwner.lifecycleScope
but this is cancelled only when the view is destroyed…
This behaviour is important as some operations (like Fragment transactions) might crash depending on the current Lifecycle - and it also doesn’t make sense to show a snack bar if the user can’t see it.
Thanks in advance.