MusicSearch

Paging

Paging is a cross-cutting concern that exists in every layer of my app (UI, ViewModel, domain, data).

The official docs recommends putting Flow<PagingData> in the ViewModel layer, whereas I’m currently in the process of moving this out of this layer and into the repository (data) layer.

I guess the main advantage of this approach would allow us to insert separators in the ViewModel.

flow.map { pagingData ->
    pagingData
        .insertSeparators { before: SearchHistoryListItemModel?, _: SearchHistoryListItemModel? ->
            if (before == null) Header() else null
        }
}

For multiplatform, I’m uncertain on whether I will keep Android ViewModels in the near future. So, the more logic I can extract from them, the better.

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