Version: 3.2

Quickstart - Android - Annotations

This tutorial lets you write an Android/Kotlin application and use Koin inject and retrieve your components.

Get the code

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The source code is available at on Github

Gradle Setup

Add KSP in your root Gradle config:

// Add KSP Plugin
plugins {
id "com.google.devtools.ksp" version "$ksp_version"
}

Add the Koin Android dependency like below:

// Add Maven Central to your repositories if needed
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
// Use KSP Plugin
apply plugin: 'com.google.devtools.ksp'
// Use KSP Generated sources
android {
applicationVariants.all { variant ->
variant.sourceSets.java.each {
it.srcDirs += "build/generated/ksp/${variant.name}/kotlin"
}
}
}
dependencies {
// Koin for Android
implementation "io.insert-koin:koin-android:$koin_version"
implementation "io.insert-koin:koin-annotations:$koin_ksp_version"
ksp "io.insert-koin:koin-ksp-compiler:$koin_ksp_version"
}

Our Components

Repository

Let's create a HelloRepository to provide some data:

interface HelloRepository {
fun giveHello(): String
}
@Single
class HelloRepositoryImpl() : HelloRepository {
override fun giveHello() = "Hello Koin"
}

We tag it with @Single annotation to declare it as single instance.

Presenter

Let's create a presenter class, for consuming this data:

@Factory
class MySimplePresenter(val repo: HelloRepository) {
fun sayHello() = "${repo.giveHello()} from $this"
}

We tag it with @Factory annotation, to declare it as Koin factory instance (recreated each time you need)

ViewModel

Let's create a ViewModel class, for consuming this data:

@KoinViewModel
class MyViewModel(val repo : HelloRepository) : ViewModel() {
fun sayHello() = "${repo.giveHello()} from $this"
}

We tag it @KoinViewModel annotation to declare it as Koin ViewModel instance.

Writing the Koin module

Let's create a AppModule class to scan our components:

@Module
@ComponentScan("org.koin.sample")
class AppModule
  • @Module - tag the class a Module
  • @ComponentScan - scan given package for Koin definitions

Start Koin

Now that we have a module, let's start it with Koin. Open your application class, or make one (don't forget to declare it in your manifest.xml). Just call the startKoin() function:

// generated from Koin KSP
import org.koin.ksp.generated.module
class MyApplication : Application(){
override fun onCreate() {
super.onCreate()
// Start Koin
startKoin {
androidLogger()
androidContext(this@MyApplication)
modules(AppModule().module)
}
}
}

Injecting dependencies

The MySimplePresenter component will be created with HelloRepository instance. To get it into our Activity, let's inject it with the by inject() delegate injector:

class MySimpleActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
// Lazy injected MySimplePresenter
val firstPresenter: MySimplePresenter by inject()
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
//...
}
}

The by inject() function allows us to retrieve Koin instances, in Android components runtime (Activity, fragment, Service...)

The get() function is here to retrieve directly an instance (non lazy)

The MyViewModel component will be created with HelloRepository instance. To get it into our Activity, let's inject it with the by viewModel() delegate injector:

class MyViewModelActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
// Lazy Inject ViewModel
val myViewModel: MyViewModel by viewModel()
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_simple)
//...
}
}
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The by viewModel() function allows us to retrieve a ViewModel instance from Koin, linked to the Android ViewModelFactory.

The getViewModel() function is here to retrieve directly an instance (non lazy)

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