hello everyone, I am currently stuck because Hilt cannot provide my ViewModel. When running tests, t...

# android

[André Thiele]

hello everyone, I am currently stuck because Hilt cannot provide my ViewModel. When running tests, the ViewModel gets constructed correctly using a manual constructor call and the tests pass correctly, so I assume its an error with my Hilt configuration.
I am using Compose and the viewModel() method. It crashes at runtime with the following error message:

[André Thiele]

Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: java.lang.Class<app.example.ui.screens.ExampleViewModel> has no zero argument constructor at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Native Method) at androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider$NewInstanceFactory.create(ViewModelProvider.java:219) ... 199 more

[André Thiele]

My ViewModel looks like this:

@HiltViewModel
class ExampleViewModel @Inject constructor(
    private val exampleRepository: ExampleRepository
) : BaseViewModel<Action, State>() {

[André Thiele]

@Composable
fun ExampleScreen(viewModel: ExampleViewModel = viewModel()) {

[Marek Defeciński]

like here they say you should use hiltViewModel extension

[Marek Defeciński]

https://stackoverflow.com/a/68584960/551383

[André Thiele]

i mean i don't necessarily want to scope it to the navgraph. the docs state the following: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/libraries#hilt