ViewModel Lifecycle

🌳 ViewModel Lifecycle allows you to track and observe Jetpack's ViewModel lifecycle changes.
Also, it supports useful extensions for RxKotlin/RxJava and Coroutines.

Including in your project

Gradle

Add the code below to your root build.gradle file (not your module build.gradle file):

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

Next, add the dependency below to your module's build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    implementation "com.github.skydoves:viewmodel-lifecycle:1.1.0"
}

SNAPSHOT

Snapshots of the current development version of ViewModel-Lifecycle are available, which track the latest versions.

repositories {
   maven { url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/' }
}

Usage

ViewModel-Lifecycle allows you to observe two lifecycle changes: initialized and cleared.

ViewModelLifecycleOwner

ViewModelLifecycleOwner is a lifecycle owner for the Jetpack's ViewModel, which extends LifecycleOwner. It traces and provides lifecycle states for ViewModels. You can get the ViewModelLifecycleOwner from your ViewModel as the following:

class MyActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

  private val viewModel by viewModels<MyViewModel>()

  override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    
    val viewModelLifecycleOwner = viewModel.viewModelLifecycleOwner
...

Also, you can get it directly from your ViewModel as the following:

class MyViewModel : ViewModel() {

  val lifecycleOwner = viewModelLifecycleOwner
}

ViewModelLifecycleOwner for LiveData

You can also use it to observe your LiveData with the ViewModelLifecycleOwner depending on ViewModel's lifecycle. If the lifecycle moves to the cleared state, the observer will automatically be removed.

class MyViewModel : ViewModel() {

  private val liveData = MutableLiveData<String>()

  init {
    val lifecycleOwner = liveData.observe(viewModelLifecycleOwner) {
      // sometihng
    }
  }
}

Note: If you use ViewModelLifecycleOwner to observe your LiveData, observers will receive every event before the lifecycle moves to the cleared state. But you'll not receive further events by Activity recreations such as screen rotation. So make sure which lifecycleOwner is the best solution.

ViewModelLifecycle

ViewModelLifecycle is an implementation of the Lifecycle, which follows the ViewModel's lifecycle. ViewModelLifecycle handles multiple LifecycleObserver such as ViewModelLifecycleObserver to track ViewModel's lifecycle. ViewModelLifecycle belongs to ViewModelLifecycleOwner, and you can get it directly from the [ViewModelLifecycleOwner] as the following:

val viewModelLifecycle = viewModelLifecycleOwner.viewModelLifecycle

ViewModelLifecycle Observers

You can observe the lifecycle changes of the ViewModelLifecycle with addViewModelLifecycleObserver extension as the following:

viewModel.viewModelLifecycleOwner.addViewModelLifecycleObserver { viewModelState ->
  when (viewModelState) {
    ViewModelState.INITIALIZED -> // viewModel was initialized
    ViewModelState.CLEARED -> // viewModel was cleraed
  }
}

You can also observe the lifecycle changes of the ViewModelLifecycle with addObserver as the following:

viewModelLifecycleOwner.lifecycle.addObserver(
  object : DefaultViewModelLifecycleObserver {
    override fun onInitialized(viewModelLifecycleOwner: ViewModelLifecycleOwner) {
        // viewModel was initialized
    }

    override fun onCleared(viewModelLifecycleOwner: ViewModelLifecycleOwner) {
        // viewModel was cleraed
    }
  }
)

You can also implement your own custom lifecycle observer classes with DefaultViewModelLifecycleObserver and FullViewModelLifecycleObserver interfaces.

ViewModel Lifecycle for RxKotlin (RxJava)

ViewModel Lifecycle provides useful extensions for RxKotlin (RxJava).

Gradle

Add the dependency below to your module's build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    // RxKotlin3 (RxJava3)
    implementation "com.github.skydoves:viewmodel-lifecycle-rxkotlin3:$version"

    // RxKotlin2 (RxJava2)
    implementation "com.github.skydoves:viewmodel-lifecycle-rxkotlin2:$version"
}

AutoDisposable

With autoDisposable extension, you can create a Disposable delegate property which will call the dispose() function automatically when ViewModel will be cleared as the following:

class MyViewModel : ViewModel() {

  // dispose CompositeDisposable automatically when viewModel is getting cleared
  val compositeDisposable by autoDisposable(CompositeDisposable())
}

The autoDisposable extension creates a read-only property, which receives the Disposable interface as an inital value.

ViewModel Lifecycle for Coroutines

ViewModel-Lifecycle also supports Coroutines to track and observe ViewModel's lifecycle changes.

Gradle

Add the dependency below to your module's build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    implementation "com.github.skydoves:viewmodel-lifecycle-coroutines:$version"
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core:1.5.2"
}

ViewModelLifecycle Flow

You can observe lifecycle changes as a Flow with viewModelLifecycleFlow extension as the following:

class MyInteractor(
  private val viewModelLifecycleOwner: ViewModelLifecycleOwner
) : CoroutineScope {

  override val coroutineContext: CoroutineContext = SupervisorJob() + Dispatchers.Main

  init {
    launch(coroutineContext) {
      viewModelLifecycleOwner.viewModelLifecycleFlow().collect { viewModelState ->
        when (viewModelState) {
          ViewModelState.INITIALIZED -> // ViewModel was initialized.
          ViewModelState.CLEARED -> {
            // ViewModel was cleared.
            coroutineContext.cancel() // cancel the custom scope.
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Make sure you cancel your custom CoroutineScope after observing the ViewModelState.CLEARED, and the viewModelLifecycleFlow extension must be launched on main thread.

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License

Copyright 2022 skydoves (Jaewoong Eum)

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