Best practice for Android MVVM startActivity

Question

I am building an Android App using MVVM and DataBinding. And I have a function inside my ViewModel that starts an Activity. Is it okay to have an onClick call inside a ViewModel

Answer 1

That's absolutely perfect to put it inside ViewModel, however you need to set your ViewModel from Activity/Fragment.

Here are some links you can follow to learn MVVM architecture.

Approaching Android with MVVM
Android MVVM
https://github.com/ivacf/archi
People-MVVM
MVVM on Android: What You Need to Know