Is there a way to use viewmodel defined in common code with Hilt? It needs a @HiltViewModel on class and @inject on constructor.

Maybe using type alias like the parcelize approach with multi platform

what would you expect to happen on non-Android platforms?

Nothing I guess. Another DI framework should be used or if it is jvm dagger without hilt

The idealistic way would be for hilt to also support providing viewmodels in modules... I think it is a pretty cool feature but I don't know where I can post a feature request.

Hilt is android specific and probably might not working properly with common code. Koin could be an alternative to look into.

@Manuel Vivo Would you please take a look at this? Is there another way that I'm missing? Pretty good use case for supporting module provided viewmodel I think. #FeatureRequeset 🙂

Yeah! Unfortunately, Hilt doesn’t support KMP at the moment. There are some efforts going on to migrate Dagger to KSP first which will bring it closer to have some sort of KMP support. But that’d happen with Dagger, Hilt is Android-specific and doesn’t make sense to have it as a KMP library

@Manuel Vivo But if we maybe could Provide Hilt viewmodels through Modules, we wouldn't need hilt inside KMP modules. We could just define the provider inside a module in app.

Well, I don’t think that’s possible at the moment. ViewModels were first shipped as an additional library. But as the

ViewModelComponent

was needed to solve certain problems, the team included ViewModels in core Hilt. I don’t think that’ll get reverted

I think it might have gotten a bit confusing because of Gradle Module and Dagger Module 🙂 I meant sth like this:

// KMP shared module
class MainViewModel(...) : ViewModel() {  // ViewModel defined in Shared code. ViewModel is a TypeAlias for android ViewModel.
....
}

// App module
object ViewModelModule {
 @Provides
 @HiltViewModel  // This annotation can't be here currently. I mean this or sth similar.
 fun provideMainViewModel(...): MainViewModel {

 }
  ...
}

You could provide the VM using Dagger though

Aha you mean sth like this without hilt? https://github.com/google/dagger/issues/2287#issuecomment-761811164

I was actually thinking about sth like this: https://proandroiddev.com/connecting-the-dots-44d8fa79f14

Thanks thats great!