Android Tutorial #10: Paging 3 — Infinite Scroll with Compose
Your app has a list of 10,000 items. Loading them all at once is a bad idea. The API call takes forever. The device runs out of memory. The UI freezes while Room queries thousands of rows. You need pagination — load 20 items at a time, and load more when the user scrolls near the bottom. You could build this manually. Track the current page. Handle loading and error states. Cache pages. Manage memory. Or you could use Paging 3, which does all of this for you. ...