Which artifact for livedata integration? androidx....

# compose

[Mehdi Haghgoo]

Which artifact for livedata integration? androidx.compose.runtime:runtime-livedata or androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-compose?

[Ian Lake]

androidx.compose.runtime:runtime-livedata is what has observeAsState. viewmodel-compose only has APIs for dealing specifically with ViewModels

[Mehdi Haghgoo]

I used to add only the former and the code worked. For example, I could use ViewModels and as you said, observeAsState. Has that changed? Do I need to add the latter to projects too?

[Ian Lake]

There's no androidx.compose artifact that gives you ViewModel support, but other artifacts, like Navigation Compose, do pull in viewmodel-compose as a transitive dependency, which would make it available to your code as well