is ViewModel available for desktop? seems like its...

# compose-desktop

[Glenn Martin]

is ViewModel available for desktop? seems like its only adroidx

[Arkadii Ivanov]

I think it's not.

[Glenn Martin]

😞

[Arkadii Ivanov]

Why would one need it for desktop?

[Glenn Martin]

we're going around in circles mate

[Javier]

you can just do expect actual

[Mark Murphy]

There was a recent discussion about how ViewModel is not strictly necessary in a pure-Compose world even on Android: https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1608859219262500

The point of the Jetpack ViewModel was to deal with configuration changes. AFAIK, Compose for Desktop does not have such a thing.

[Colton Idle]

Good point. In android lang you can still use a ViewModel and just not use the Android Arch ViewModel if you want to. Seems like AAC ViewModel was mostly a convenience/band-aid to the issues people had with activity/fragment lifecycle.

Not an expert on these things... just stating my point of view. I think the creator of ViewModel even admitted ViewModel is kind of a bad name because it's not even necessarily a ViewModel. Anyway, yeah the biggest reason ViewModel in android is popular is because it smooths out the lifecycle events in android.