Master of Lifecycle

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Explains Android lifecycle issues that cause battery and memory waste—e.g., a long‑lived Activity retaining a short‑lived Fragment or coroutines not being cancelled—and shows fixes validated with Memory Profiler showing retained Activity instances. Covers using ViewModel with SavedStateHandle for rotation/process survival, LiveData builder cancellation behavior, and making Kotlin Flow behave like LiveData via stateIn + flowWithLifecycle or using repeatOnLifecycle / launchWhenStarted to stop background work.

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1. 0:00Lifecycle importance
2. 2:08Understand lifecycle
3. 5:42Prevent memory leaks
4. 10:56Activity lifecycle
5. 15:10ViewModel and LiveData for UI
6. 18:49Flow vs LiveData behavior
7. 21:18LiveData vs Flow usage
8. 22:23Resource efficiency

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