How to get an Instance of ViewModel in activity in 2020/21?

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Gerke picture Gerke · Jan 28, 2020 · Viewed 27.7k times · Source

I am new to the mvvm pattern. I created a ViewModel for the main activity. Now I want to get an instance of the ViewModel in the main activity.

Most Tutorials and answers here on Stackoverflow suggest using ViewModelProviders.of(..., but this is depreceated.

So according to this question on stackoverflow: ViewModelProviders is deprecated in 1.1.0 main activity in onCreate, I do the following (and I could swear I already had it running): mainActivityViewModel = new ViewModelProvider(this).get(MainActivityViewModel.class);

However, I am getting an error telling me, that no suitable constructor has been found.

error: no suitable constructor found for ViewModelProvider(MainActivity)

Alternatively to make absolutely clear, that the MainActivity shall be the ViewModelStoreOwner, I created a variable ViewModelStoreOwner vmso = this; and put that variable into the constructor like so: mainActivityViewModel = new ViewModelProvider(vmso).get(MainActivityViewModel.class);

Answer

Antares picture Antares · Apr 3, 2020

You should update your gradle file to:

implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-extensions:2.2.0'

And due to this change you can pass Activity to the constructor you mentioned:

mainActivityViewModel = new ViewModelProvider(this).get(MainActivityViewModel.class);

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