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Can you list the operators used in Flow?

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In Kotlin Flow, the following main operators are used for working with data streams:

  • transform — transforms stream elements.
  • map — applies a function to each element and returns a new stream.
  • filter — passes only elements satisfying a condition.
  • take — takes the first N elements.
  • collect — collects elements from the stream (terminal operator).
  • flatMapConcat, flatMapMerge, flatMapLatest — for transforming and combining streams.
  • onEach — performs an action for each element without changing the stream.
  • buffer — adds buffering for performance.
  • debounce — filters out elements that arrive too frequently.

Example of using map and filter:

flowOf(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
    .filter { it % 2 == 0 }
    .map { it * it }
    .collect { println(it) }  // Outputs 4 and 16

These operators allow flexible processing of asynchronous data streams.

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