Managing state beyond ViewModels and Hilt
Droidcon SF - June 2023
Abstract
Separation of concerns is a common best practice followed by all successful software projects. In Android applications, there is usually a UI layer, a data layer, and a domain layer. Given the infinite number of ways to implement these layers, it's not clear how to get started quickly. Therefore, many projects follow Google's high-level guide to app architecture, which suggests many reasonable defaults and best practices. But how do the proposed recommendations work in practice? How do you set up an architecture that is ready for your use cases with this guide in mind? Are suggestions such as using Hilt as the backbone for your architecture really a good recommendation?
This talk will discuss best practices for taking ownership of your own architecture, decoupling your business logic from Android components, and creating and managing scopes for your use cases. There will be concrete advice on how to loosely couple classes in the data and domain layers, how to prevent memory and thread leaks, and how to adopt the dependency injection framework of your choice.