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Code: GalleryViewModel

import androidx.lifecycle.SavedStateHandle
import androidx.lifecycle.ViewModel
import androidx.lifecycle.switchMap
import androidx.lifecycle.viewModelScope
import androidx.paging.cachedIn
import com.jimmytrivedi.kotlin.imagesearchapp.data.UnsplashRepository
import dagger.assisted.Assisted
import javax.inject.Inject

class GalleryViewModel @Inject constructor(
    private val repository: UnsplashRepository,
    @Assisted state: SavedStateHandle
) :
    ViewModel() {

    private val currentQuery = state.getLiveData(CURRENT_QUERY, DEFAULT_QUERY)

    val photos = currentQuery.switchMap { queryString ->
        repository.getSearchResults(queryString).cachedIn(viewModelScope)
    }

    fun searchPhotos(query: String) {
        currentQuery.value = query
    }

    companion object {
        private const val CURRENT_QUERY = "current_query"
        private const val DEFAULT_QUERY = "cats"
    }
}

GalleryViewModelFactory

import androidx.lifecycle.ViewModel
import androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider
import javax.inject.Inject
import javax.inject.Provider
import javax.inject.Singleton

@Singleton
class GalleryViewModelFactory @Inject constructor(
    private val creators: Map<Class<out ViewModel>, @JvmSuppressWildcards Provider<ViewModel>>
) : ViewModelProvider.Factory {
    override fun <T : ViewModel> create(modelClass: Class<T>): T {
        val creator = creators[modelClass] ?: creators.entries.firstOrNull {
            modelClass.isAssignableFrom(it.key)
        }?.value ?: throw IllegalArgumentException("unknown model class $modelClass")
        try {
            @Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST")
            return creator.get() as T
        } catch (e: Exception) {
            throw RuntimeException(e)
        }

    }
}

Note: Please make sure that it was working till yesterday, and everything is correct only. I just updated some dependecies and I got stuck with Cannot create an instance of class ... ViewModel, So, I searched on stack overflow, and got this proper answer with, but in my AS, when I click on GalleryViewModel, then usage is showing for this in-built class: GalleryViewModelFactory_Factory, but I want to use my own custom class to resolve the errors.

Reference:

  1. https://github.com/android/architecture-components-samples/blob/d7cd7a9414ef1eeba52a79ec76f6d9827cd50a36/GithubBrowserSample/app/src/main/java/com/android/example/github/viewmodel/GithubViewModelFactory.kt

  2. Android ViewModel has no zero argument constructor

Sychi Singh
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  • Have you checked [This thread](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62650736/android-viewmodelfactory-with-hilt) ? – ADM Feb 27 '21 at 06:23

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When I remember this correctly, you can pass your custom viewmodelfactory when you instantiate your viewmodel. For Example:

val myViewModel: MyViewModel by viewmodels { myViewModelFactory }
Andrew
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