Hilt creating different instances of view model inside same activity

Question

After recently migrating from Dagger to Hilt I started observing very strange behavior with respect to ViewModels. Below is the code snippet:

@HiltAndroidApp
class AndroidApplication : Application() {}

@Singleton
class HomeViewModel @ViewModelInject constructor() :
    ViewModel() {}

@AndroidEntryPoint
class HomeFragment : Fragment(R.layout.fragment_home) {

    private val homeViewModel by viewModels<HomeViewModel>()

    override fun onResume() {
        super.onResume()
        Timber.i("hashCode: ${homeViewModel.hashCode()}")
    }
}


@AndroidEntryPoint
class SomeOtherFragment : Fragment(R.layout.fragment_home) {

    private val homeViewModel by viewModels<HomeViewModel>()

    override fun onResume() {
        super.onResume()
        Timber.i("hashCode: ${homeViewModel.hashCode()}")
    }
}

The value of hashCode isn't consistent in all the fragments. I am unable to figure out what else am I missing for it to generate singleton instance of viewmodel within the activity.

I am using single activity design and have added all the required dependencies.

Answer 1

When you use by viewModels, you are creating a ViewModel scoped to that individual Fragment - this means each Fragment will have its own individual instance of that ViewModel class. If you want a single ViewModel instance scoped to the entire Activity, you'd want to use by activityViewModels

private val homeViewModel by activityViewModels<HomeViewModel>()