Cannot resolve ViewModelProvider construction in a fragment?

Question

I have been spending a lot of time trying to figure out why in the code below (towards the end), I get an error on ViewModelProvider(this). I also tried getActivity() instead of

Answer 1

You aren't using the latest library release in which the ViewModelProvider(@NonNull ViewModelStoreOwner owner) constructor was included. You are seeing the latest docs but not using the latest library version of ViewModel. You need to use

    implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel:2.2.0' // For Java

or

    implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx:2.2.0' // For kotlin extension