Flow, SharedFlow, StateFlow Class Diagram

Kotlin Flow, SharedFlow, MutableSharedFlow, StateFlow, MutableStateFlow and FlowCollector class diagram

This is part of the asynchronous flow series:

• Part 1 — Exploring Android LiveData Usages and Behaviors
• Part 2 — Introduction to Kotlin Flows and Channels
• Part 3 — Exploring Different Ways to Collect Kotlin Flow
• Part 4 — Convert Flow to SharedFlow and StateFlow
• Part 5 — Flow, SharedFlow, StateFlow Class Diagram
• Part 6 — Kotlin Flow — Combine, Merge and Zip

Since I’ve been playing around with asynchronous Kotlin flow in Android, I have to admit that the class relationship between all these flow classes is not clear even though I know how to use them.

Therefore, I drew this diagram below to get me to understand them.

There are a few things that I did not expect before I get to see this big picture.

• I didn’t know StateFlow extends SharedFlow interface. I thought there are completely…