--- title: SharedFlow in Kotlin — A Simple Guide for Android Developers description: SharedFlow is a Kotlin Coroutines API designed for one-time events in Android apps, such as showing toasts, snackbars, navigation triggers, or login/logout... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sharedflow-in-kotlin-a-simple-guide-for-android-developers-mv14qhbzq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: SharedFlow in Kotlin — A Simple Guide for Android Developers | daily.dev og:description: SharedFlow is a Kotlin Coroutines API designed for one-time events in Android apps, such as showing toasts, snackbars, navigation triggers, or login/logout... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sharedflow-in-kotlin-a-simple-guide-for-android-developers-mv14qhbzq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mV14qHBZq.png og:image:alt: SharedFlow in Kotlin — A Simple Guide for Android Developers 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. # SharedFlow in Kotlin — A Simple Guide for Android Developers **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SharedFlow is a Kotlin Coroutines API designed for one-time events in Android apps, such as showing toasts, snackbars, navigation triggers, or login/logout events. Unlike StateFlow, it does not store a value or require an initial value — it only delivers events to currently active collectors. A simple ViewModel and Activity example demonstrates emitting and collecting events using repeatOnLifecycle. The post also compares SharedFlow with StateFlow and LiveData, explaining why SharedFlow is preferable over LiveData for one-time events that could otherwise re-trigger on configuration changes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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