Hey everyone! What is the difference between <jetbrains common viewmodel> and the android viewmodel?...

# multiplatform

[Ruben Quadros]

Hey everyone! What is the difference between jetbrains common viewmodel and the android viewmodel? Since the android viewmodel is also multiplatform compatible what is the benefit of this common viewmodel?

[Pablichjenkov]

Is the same class AFAIK, both links refer to the same thing. Basically the old android-only code moved to multiplatform now and got named Jetbrains ViewModel somehow

[streetsofboston]

I wish they didn't call it ViewModel for KMP.
KMP should be more platform agnostic.... The way that the Android ViewModel function is... well... very Android-y, even the KMP version of it.

[streetsofboston]

It's a lifecycle aware (Ui)StateHolder... not sure what other name would fit better, though 🙂

[Ruben Quadros]

yeah agree.. its primary responsibility would be ui state management

[Pablichjenkov]

LifecycleAwareStateHolder 👌😁

[streetsofboston]

Or ScopedStateHolder 🙂

[Pablichjenkov]

Naming is always hard

[Atul Gupta]

Also changing name will break the compatibility and make it harder to migrate existing code