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Created by Mikolai Gütschow@ialokimMaintainer

Migrate view models from `State` to `StateFlow`

StateFlow as provided by Kotlin coroutines has the following advantages:

  • operations similar to Transformations.map (on LiveData) allow to implicitly update a "state" whose value depends on another one (e.g., currently in ContactListViewModel, we have to update the exposed list by an explicit function call)
  • StateFlow is recommended and used in several places for Jetpack Compose and Compose for Desktop
  • the view models will be independent of the the UI framework and could be re-used for the Android app

We most certainly want to include coroutines as a dependency anyhow, if we want to move all (long-running) Briar API calls to a background thread (in a Kotlin-ish way) > see #98 (closed) .

Edited by Mikolai Gütschow