Factory

Kotlin |Java

interface Factory

androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider.Factory

Known Direct Subclasses ViewModelProvider.NewInstanceFactory ViewModelProvider.NewInstanceFactory Simple factory, which calls empty constructor on the give class.

Known Indirect Subclasses ViewModelProvider.AndroidViewModelFactory, ViewModelProviders.DefaultFactory ViewModelProvider.AndroidViewModelFactory Factory which may create AndroidViewModel and ViewModel, which have an empty constructor. ViewModelProviders.DefaultFactory Factory which may create AndroidViewModel and ViewModel, which have an empty constructor.

Implementations of Factory interface are responsible to instantiate ViewModels.

Summary

Public methods
abstract T	create(@NonNull modelClass: Class<T>) Creates a new instance of the given Class.

Public methods

create

@NonNull abstract fun <T : ViewModel!> create(@NonNull modelClass: Class<T>): T

Creates a new instance of the given Class.

Parameters
modelClass	Class<T>: a Class whose instance is requested
<T>	Class<T>: The type parameter for the ViewModel.

Return
T: a newly created ViewModel