Is it possible to add a

@Inject

to a typealias? My use case is where I have a type that I want to use in two different scopes:

class Foo

@AppScope
@Inject
typealias AppFoo = Foo

@ScreenScope
@Inject
typealias ScreenFoo = Foo

Currently I have to use provider functions, which is a lot more verbose, especially since I now need a component for those function:

@Component
abstract class FooComponent {
  @AppScope @Provides fun provideAppFoo() = AppFoo()
  @ScreenScope @Provides fun provideScreenFoo() = ScreenFoo()
}

(this example is contrived, but I do have an actual use case for something like this)

This would only work if you'd want to construct Foo in exactly the same way for both scopes, which seems pretty limited imo. You component sample even implys they are constructed differently with

AppFoo()

and

ScreenFoo()

.

Yeah it's a little contrived. The actual use case is related to Android's context, where I want one instance that is a global singleton and uses the application context, and one instance that is scoped to an activity, and uses the activity's context.