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Edit: This question is a bit out of date now that Google has given us the ability to scope ViewModel to navigation graphs.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

I think I have a better solution.

As stated by @Nagy Robi, you could clear the ViewModel by call viewModelStore.clear(). The problem with this is that it will clear ALL the view model scoped within this ViewModelStore. In other words, you won't have control of which ViewModel to clear.

But according to @mikehc here. We could actually create our very own ViewModelStore instead. This will allow us granular control to what scope the ViewModel have to exist.

Note: I have not seen anyone do this approach but I hope this is a valid one. This will be a really good way to control scopes in a Single Activity Application.

Please give some feedbacks on this approach. Anything will be appreciated.

Update:

Since Navigation Component v2.1.0-alpha02, ViewModels could now be scoped to a flow. The downside to this is that you have to implement Navigation Component to your project and also you have no granualar control to the scope of your ViewModel. But this seems to be a better thing.