I was looking into Koin Annotations, and couldnt f...
# koinv
Vaibhav Jaiswal
04/14/2025, 1:42 PMI was looking into Koin Annotations, and couldnt figure out how is it better then the non-annotation based approach
Can anyone help me?
Im looking into migrating my codebase to the new Koin Annotations
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Kibet Theophilus
04/14/2025, 2:55 PMThe annotation one has compile time verification
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Vaibhav Jaiswal
04/14/2025, 3:41 PMHow much increase in build time does this bring ?
Does it make our project heavier as this uses Annotation Processing ?
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Alexandru Caraus
04/14/2025, 4:51 PMYou will pay penalty at compile time with annotations, as i understood its not that bad, specially if you would split everything in modules and have gradle help you skip some module compilation.
Alexandru Caraus
04/14/2025, 4:52 PMI think there were somewhere benchmarks on annotations
Alexandru Caraus
04/14/2025, 4:52 PMBut it depends on project setup
Alexandru Caraus
04/14/2025, 4:53 PMYou also can go gradually with them
Alexandru Caraus
04/14/2025, 4:53 PMModule by module
Alexandru Caraus
04/14/2025, 4:53 PMAs you can mix no problem both approaches
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Vaibhav Jaiswal
04/15/2025, 6:27 AMAhh I see
I already have a very modular project with modules and sub-modules, so I think i can go module by module as you said
Thanks for the insights
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