:wave: Hey team, I'm looking into alternatives to ...

# appyx

[Devesh Shetty]

👋 Hey team,
I'm looking into alternatives to compose navigation. The samples look great visually.
Just watched this talk - https://www.droidcon.com/2022/11/15/model-driven-navigation-with-appyx-from-zero-to-hero/
QQ:
1. I rely on savedStateHandle to retrieve data within a ViewModel. What is the appyx way to do it?
2. How do I scope VMs to a certain node path?

[Zsolt]

Hey @Devesh Shetty! Appyx provides RetainedInstanceStore with which your objects (ViewModel) can be scoped to a Node and also survive configuration changes.

I’m working on an updated documentation just now, will try to make a PR very soon.

[Zsolt]

The documentation update is out now.

Here you can find our stance on ViewModel: https://bumble-tech.github.io/appyx/navigation/integrations/viewmodel/

And here you can find our approach to surviving configuration changes:
https://bumble-tech.github.io/appyx/navigation/features/configuration/

Let me know if this is useful, or if you have any further questions!

After discussion with the team I can say we want to come back to the topic of ViewModel soon.

We should provide more samples and also see if we could/should merge any of the open proposals or provide support for them a different way.

[Devesh Shetty]

Thank you @Zsolt! This is what I was looking for. I will try it out over the weekend