any recommended ways about eagerly creating a dagger provided object? i probably don't want dagger to create it, but in my application i have an

@Inject

field that is never used just so my object gets created - this seems odd though

may wrap it in Lazy like @Inject Lazy<Foo> foo; https://google.github.io/dagger/api/2.10/dagger/Lazy.html

Just delete your field if it's not used

@gergo what would i gain from having it lazy? i want it to start when my application starts (android) since its sort of a background task.

So you want an object not to be created but created? I don't get it

ohh i missundestood your intentions then. well if you don't want to inject it, then you may provide it from the component, and create it like component.provideFoo() in your application's onCreate method which will create the object but you won't have the field. you want something like this right?

@Paul Woitaschek i want it to be created but there is no use for me to have a reference to that object. i.e. the object sets up a listener in its init method

Then don't do it in the init block