Is there a right way to use Jetpack Compose Navigation components with Koin?

# koin

[Slava Glushenkov]

Is there a right way to use Jetpack Compose Navigation components with Koin?

[arnaud.giuliani]

is it different from Jetpack Navigation? 🤔

[Slava Glushenkov]

Definitely.
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/navigation

[arnaud.giuliani]

can be interesting to see a concrete sample and what could bring Koin

[arnaud.giuliani]

interesting tought 👍

[Slava Glushenkov]

Common usecase. I'm declaring navController like.

val navController = rememberNavController()

And connect it to NavHost declaring with some kind of DSL like:

NavHost(
        navController,
        startDestination = SCREEN_ONE
   ) {
        composable(SCREEN_ONE) {
            screenOne(
                myViewModel = myViewModel,
                navController = navController
            )
        }
        composable(SCREEN_TWO) {...}
........ all other composables
}

That's all I need to start app with embedded navigation.
I'm calling:

navController.navigate(SCREEN_IM_GOING)

inside composables.

So I can use Koin's ViewModel inside composables. But I steel need to pass navController through all compose tree to use it. Would be nice if Koin will take care of navController.

[pawegio]

With koin you can inject a navigator instance to composable function containing NavHost and pass navController to it, so you can use it in the ViewModel.

[Slava Glushenkov]

It's not so easy because NavController created not just with plain constructor but "rememberNavController".

BTW Hilt already have navigation support features:
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/libraries#hilt-navigation