Interesting to see this video from yesterday really doubling down on message that ViewModels are still very much needed

in a way I'm glad, it means thousands of projects and millions of lines of code don't have to be rewritten once again 😛

what would we do if we weren't always rewriting our apps 😃

hahaha 😄 :true-story:

def does feel like that sometimes 😃

"The ViewModel API is the only supported way to make large and arbitrary objects survive configuration changes on Android"

Well.. SQLiteNormalizedCache would like a word about this

"supported" is a load bearing adjective in that sentence

I quickly tried to work without ViewModels on Android, I miserably failed. Some libraries authors are trying to dissociate from Android’s ViewModels, like Voyager, as you need to create custom scopes based on a Android lifecycle stuff, that’s not that simple.

I think that's the point. It's not that you want to solve this yourself. But if you want a library to solve it, that library can either extend the quirky viewmodel abstraction to non android. Or it can use some non viewmodel abstraction including on android.