MVVM on Android

Sep 1 2022 · Kotlin 1.6, Android 12, Android Studio Chipmunk | 2021.2.1 Patch 1

Part 1: MVVM on Android

10. Challenge: Create a ViewModel

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Notes: 10. Challenge: Create a ViewModel

The clearAllCreatures() method in the AllCreaturesViewModel class uses Kotlin Coroutine and would look like this:

fun clearAllCreatures() = viewModelScope.launch { repository.clearAllCreatures() }

Also AppCompatResources is preffered over context.getDrawable() as the IDE recommends you to do this. So the code to set the avatarListItem image in the bind() method of the ViewHolder class would be:

binding.avatarListItem.setImageDrawable(
    AppCompatResources.getDrawable(
        binding.avatarListItem.context,
        creature.drawable
    )
)

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Your next challenge is to put together all you’ve learned so far to build a view model for the app’s first screen that should show the list of all creatures in the repository.

class AllCreaturesViewModel(private val repository: CreatureRepository = RoomRepository()) : ViewModel() {
  
}
  private val allCreaturesLiveData = repository.getAllCreatures()

  fun getAllCreaturesLiveData() = allCreaturesLiveData
fun clearAllCreatures() = repository.clearAllCreatures()
private lateinit var viewModel: AllCreaturesViewModel
viewModel = ViewModelProviders.of(this).get(AllCreaturesViewModel::class.java)
    viewModel.getAllCreaturesLiveData().observe(this, Observer { creatures ->
      creatures?.let {
        adapter.updateCreatures(creatures)
      }
    })
viewModel.clearAllCreatures()
  itemView.avatarListItem.setImageDrawable(itemView.context.getDrawable(creature.drawable))
itemView.name.text = creature.name
itemView.hitPoints.text = creature.hitPoints.toString()