Having a composable wich haves a textfield which needs to work with a by remember mutablestateof String called text, that variable must be initialized with a datastore stored value. I have the datastore repo on the viewmodel, but it returns a Flow, which also needs to be executed in a coroutine. So… I’m stuck.

I can’t return directly the Flow and do collectAsStateWithLifecycle because it needs a coroutine, and I can’t return the coroutine because it returns a job and I need a string. How to solve this?

This is my datastore variable with the initial value for the field, and this is in my viewmodel:

userPreferencesRepository.searchText

This is the datastore value code, in my datastore repo class:

val searchText: Flow<String> = dataStore.data
    .catch {
        if (it is IOException) {
            Log.e(TAG, "Error reading preferences.", it)
            emit(emptyPreferences())
        } else {
            throw it
        }
    }
    .map { preferences ->
        preferences[SEARCH_TEXT] ?: ""
    }

A sample of a textfield that should receive that text variable from viewmodel, but I don’t know how to get it.

viewModel: FlightsScreenViewModel = viewModel(factory = FlightsScreenViewModel.factory)

TextField(
        value = text,
        onValueChange = { newText ->
            text = newText
        },
        label = { Text("Search") }
    )