Koin with Android Classes

Once you have declared some modules and you have started Koin, how can you retrieve your instances in your Android Activity Fragments or Services?

Activity, Fragment & Service as KoinComponents

Activity, Fragment & Service are extended with the KoinComponents extension. You gain access to:

  • by inject() - lazy evaluated instance from Koin container
  • get() - eager fetch instance from Koin container

For a module that declares a 'presenter' component:

val androidModule = module {
// a factory of Presenter
factory { Presenter() }
}

We can declare a property as lazy injected:

class DetailActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
// Lazy injected Presenter instance
override val presenter : Presenter by inject()
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
// ...
}

Or we can just directly get an instance:

class DetailActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
// Retrieve a Presenter instance
val presenter : Presenter = get()
}

Need inject() and get() anywhere else?

If you need to inject() or get() an instance from another class, just tag it with KoinComponent interface.

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