If you have ever shipped a feature with a scrolling list, a product manager will usually ask you to track when an item in that list is viewed by the user. With Jetpack Compose being somewhat new, I was curious how to solve this problem with respect to a LazyColumn so let's learn how to know the second eyeballs see items as they scroll into view!
I was perusing Reddit the other day when someone asked how they could use SavedStateHandle with a StateFlow similar to the SavedStateHandle.getLiveData() version. The most upvoted comment originally was saying that this functionality is not officially supported, but one could convert the LiveData to a Flow using the LiveData.asFlow() extension function. That seemed pretty simple for anyone to do, however testing that would then require using LiveData in your tests which might be annoying if you were using StateFlow to manage state. So after looking over the API, it seemed pretty simple to write a wrapper that could expose this functionality directly as a StateFlow and that is how the SavedStateFlow library was made!
Working at an enterprise that needs a custom component library with each component being its own snow flake and having more complicated logic than the next. I found myself needing a way to test the logic in these views to ensure I could iterate quickly and not break anything in the process.
Sample app that will demonstrate the basics in retrieving a user's location and requesting permission at runtime on Android.
