How to fix "No compatible definition found for type 'Context'" from Koin lib?

Question

I just started using Koin lib in an android (to replace Dagger 2) project which was prepared for tests. I have an issue with the android app context in module:

val M = module {
   val ctx = androidApplication() //here error
}

Koin is started in App class:

import android.app.Application
import android.content.Context
import org.koin.android.ext.android.startKoin

class App : Application() {

    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
        startKoin(this, listOf(M))
    }
}

I get log:

D/App: onCreate()
I/KOIN: [context] create
E/KOIN: [ERROR] - Error while resolving instance for class 'android.app.Application' - error: org.koin.error.NoBeanDefFoundException: No compatible definition found for type 'Application'. Check your module definition 

and the app crashes. Did I miss something in the configuration of Koin? In the target project, I have a few modules which deeply depend on application context. And I don't want to use a global reference to this context.

Answer 1

Solution is easy but not so obvious.

Somehow Android Studio imports standalone startKoin function instead of specific android function.

So you had to replace

import org.koin.standalone.StandAloneContext.startKoin

To

import org.koin.android.ext.android.startKoin

in Application class

Do tell if this works or not.