Manually clearing an Android ViewModel?

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Edit: This question is a bit out of date now that Google has given us the ability to scope ViewModel to navigation graphs. The better approach (rather

Answer 1

If you don't want the ViewModel to be scoped to the Activity lifecycle, you can scope it to the parent fragment's lifecycle. So if you want to share an instance of the ViewModel with multiple fragments in a screen, you can layout the fragments such that they all share a common parent fragment. That way when you instantiate the ViewModel you can just do this:

CommonViewModel viewModel = ViewModelProviders.of(getParentFragment()).class(CommonViewModel.class);

Hopefully this helps!