How should I get Resources(R.string) in viewModel in Android (MVVM and databinding)

Question

I am currently using databinding and MVVM architecture for android. What would be the best way to get string resources in ViewModel.

I am not using the new AndroidViewModel component, eventbus or RxJava

I was going through the aproach of interfaces where Activity will be responsible for providing resources. But recently I found a similar question with this answer where a single class using application context is providing all resources.

Which would be the better approach? or is there something else that I can try?

Answer 1

You can access the context by implementing AndroidViewModel instead of ViewModel.

class MainViewModel(application: Application) : AndroidViewModel(application) {
    fun getSomeString(): String? {
        return getApplication<Application>().resources.getString(R.string.some_string)
    }
}