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Android and Dependency Injection

I've been looking around, in vain, for some information on using a dependency injection container in Android development. Specifically, how to override the creation of an Activity in a way that will also work when coming back from being killed (for whatever reason).

Has anyone got any experience in this area?

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It appears you can use Google Guice 2.0 with Android. You might also look into roboguice.

Jay Askren  2010-01-26 01:03:09
Thanks, it looks like roboguice is the closest I'm going to get it. It uses inheritance (`GuiceActivity`) and performs injection on `setContentView`, but after checking out the `Activity` creation callstack I can see there's no other way.
Richard Szalay  2010-01-26 07:51:34
By the way Richard, RoboGuice now does injection in two steps. Once during onCreate for most injections, and once during setContentView for View injections.
Mike  2010-03-03 06:19:32
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You might also want to consider Spring ME. Although originally intended for Java ME, I have seen reports from people using it for Android as well. The benefit would be that you have a familiar programming model (Spring) without the penalty: Spring ME has a 0k footprint.

Wilfred Springer  2010-08-26 16:25:30

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