How to make Flow in Android backward compatible?

To make Flow in Android backward compatible, you can utilize the Flow library along with Kotlin Coroutines for asynchronous programming. This approach allows you to efficiently handle streams of data while maintaining compatibility with older Android APIs.

Example of Backward Compatibility with Flow

// Sample Kotlin code using Flow with backward compatibility import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.Flow import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.flow import kotlinx.coroutines.runBlocking fun flowExample(): Flow = flow { for (i in 1..5) { emit(i) // Emit values kotlinx.coroutines.delay(1000) // Simulate some delay } } fun main() = runBlocking { flowExample().collect { value -> println(value) // Collect and print the emitted values } }

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