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If you are using Dagger Hilt on your Android project, you’ve probably seen this exception when opening a screen. It is not really helpful, and you can lose quite some time finding the culprit, so here I list the most common causes I had when I got this exception.
Missing @AndroidEntryPoint on your Fragment / Activity
In each activity and fragment where you inject your ViewModel, you need to annotate the class with this annotation:
This is quite easy to forget, and happens with even the best of us
Missing @ViewModelInject on ViewModel constructor (now deprecated)
Another frequent thing we forget. Instead of just a regular constructor with parameters, we need to add an annotation now:
Missing @HiltViewModel on ViewModel (from 2.31+)
If you are on Dagger 2.31 or higher, the new way to inject into ViewModels instead of the @ViewModelInject approach is to annotate the class with @HiltViewModel and add an @Inject constructor:
class HomeViewModel @Inject constructor( private val databaseRepository: DatabaseRepository, … ) : ViewModel() { … }
Missing compiler dependency
This can happen if you just started a new project, and forgot to include the kapt compiler which generates all the code for injecting the ViewModels.
You probably added the Dagger Hilt compiler, but forgot about the androidx-hilt one:
implementation “com.google.dagger:hilt-android:$dagger_hilt_version” kapt “com.google.dagger:hilt-compiler:$dagger_hilt_version” kapt “androidx.hilt:hilt-compiler:$androidx_hilt_version” implementation “androidx.hilt:hilt-lifecycle-viewmodel:$androidx_hilt_version”
Did you have the same exception, and something else was the cause? Feel free to add it as a comment!
