Migrating to Kotlin State & Shared Flows

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Covers concrete migration steps: replace deprecated BroadcastChannel with Shared Flow using emit/tryEmit, map capacity to extraBufferCapacity, and set replay (default 0, replay 1 returns last value to late subscribers). Shows creating UI streams via State Flow or flow.shareIn/stateIn with start policies (eager, lazy, whileSubscribed). Demonstrates Molecule (Compose compiler) producing StateFlows, and gives three backpressure strategies with numbers: suspend (default), dropOldest, dropLatest and buffer examples like cache size 2 or 3.

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1. 0:00Introduction to talk
2. 0:48Cold vs hot flows explained
3. 3:41State flow fundamentals
4. 10:30Flow combine for UI states
5. 11:33Molecule library approach
6. 17:11Shared flow deep dive
7. 22:51Migrating from broadcast channels
8. 25:42Flow sharing strategies
9. 32:26Managing back pressure
10. 34:53Summary and resources

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