--- title: How to safely update state in your Kotlin apps | daily.dev description: This article explores the problems with state management in reactive apps and proposes a new approach using state transactions. It discusses the concept of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-safely-update-state-in-your-kotlin-apps-spo1hzrw4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to safely update state in your Kotlin apps | daily.dev og:description: This article explores the problems with state management in reactive apps and proposes a new approach using state transactions. It discusses the concept of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-safely-update-state-in-your-kotlin-apps-spo1hzrw4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sPO1hZrW4.png og:image:alt: How to safely update state in your Kotlin apps og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to safely update state in your Kotlin apps **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 12 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This article explores the problems with state management in reactive apps and proposes a new approach using state transactions. It discusses the concept of persistent and transient states, the benefits and drawbacks of unifying states in MVI and MVVM, and how to make state updates parallel and serializable. It also mentions a ready-made solution called FlowMVI for implementing this approach. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#kotlin](https://daily.dev/tags/kotlin), [#reactive-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/reactive-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-safely-update-state-in-your-kotlin-apps-spo1hzrw4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How to safely update state in your Kotlin apps","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-safely-update-state-in-your-kotlin-apps-spo1hzrw4","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-safely-update-state-in-your-kotlin-apps-spo1hzrw4"},"datePublished":"2024-04-01T04:49:56.869Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"This article explores the problems with state management in reactive apps and proposes a new approach using state transactions. It discusses the concept of...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2a0abbe35d7c78b19f37a7a1355cc726?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2a0abbe35d7c78b19f37a7a1355cc726?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Medium","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Medium","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/medium","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-safely-update-state-in-your-kotlin-apps-spo1hzrw4","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"general-programming,kotlin,reactive-programming","timeRequired":"PT12M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Medium","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How to safely update state in your Kotlin apps"}]} ```