I am playing with the new backing field feature introduced in Kotlin 2.0, however I am encountering some problem when using it on data type that is not a superclass/subclass of one and another.

private val _youTubeVideosState = Channel<YouTubeVideosState>()

val youTubeVideosState = _youTubeVideosState.receiveAsFlow()

How to convert this with using backing field? I tried the below but wasn’t able to access the send() method of Channel.

val youTubeVideosState: Flow<YouTubeVideosState>
    field = Channel<YouTubeVideosState>().receiveAsFlow()

If I tried the below it is complaining about the type not being superclass of subclass.

val youTubeVideosState: Flow
field = Channel()