Dagger 2, Providing Application Context in Module

Question

Im pretty new in Android development and newer in DI. I am using Kotlin on a personal project where I am experimenting with Dagger 2. I managed to set it up for a util class

Answer 1

This is how It is done. Using @BindsInstance in your component will inject application to all of your modules.In your case just to AppModule

@Singleton
@Component(modules = arrayOf(AppModule::class))
interface AppComponent {
    @Component.Builder
    interface Builder() {
        fun build(): AppComponent

        @BindsInstance
        fun application(application: Application): Builder
    }
}

** Delete code to "Provides application" function in your APP module and make sure you pass application context to create sharedPreferences.

@Module
class AppModule {


@Provides
@Singleton
fun provideSharedPrefManager(context: Application): SharedPreferencesManager = 
    SharedPreferencesManager(context)
}

and now in your onCreate of applicationClass

DaggerAppComponent.builder().application(this).build()

Optional: if you want to inject something into your applicationClass then do the following

 DaggerAppComponent.builder().application(this).build().inject(this)