Hi, I'm a bit confused as I have been using an `An...

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[Nat Strangerweather]

Hi, I'm a bit confused as I have been using an AndroidViewModel so I could pass a context with no memory leak, after this conversation: https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0B8MA7FA/p1609278349460800?thread_ts=1609277107.460700&cid=C0B8MA7FA
The problem since I've recently updated Kotlin is that this line is highlighted with a leak warning:

private val context = getApplication<Application>().applicationContext

Why this change and what's the point of AndroidViewModel in that case? Any ideas what I could do to avoid the problem?

[Ian Lake]

An Application class is a Context, you don't need that variable at all

[Ian Lake]

Just make your constructor val application: Application if you need to reference a Context variable sometime after init

[Nat Strangerweather]

I see, brilliant, many thanks!

[Lefko]

@Nat Strangerweather no need to change your constructor... just use AndroidViewModel.getApplication()