How to bind a view model variable with custom class type

Question

What works?

XML:

            name=\"viewModel\"
            type=\"com. . . . .MyViewModel\" />
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Answer 1

IF you wish bind List to RecyclerView.

Steps to follow.

1- Create a RecyclerView inside xml files with app:items tag to set items to bind to

 <androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:id="@+id/recycler_view"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:scrollbars="vertical"
        app:items="@{viewmodel.items}"
        app:layoutManager="androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager" />

2- Create layout for rows of RecyclerView lists. Items should have SomeObject as variable.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

    <data>

        <import type="android.widget.CompoundButton" />

        <variable
            name="task"
            type="com...data.model.Task" />

        <variable
            name="viewmodel"
            type="com...TaskListViewModel" />
    </data>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:onClick="@{() -> viewmodel.openTask(task.id)}">

        <CheckBox
            android:id="@+id/complete"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
            android:onClick="@{(view) -> viewmodel.completeTask(task, ((CompoundButton)view).isChecked())}"
            android:checked="@{task.completed}" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/title"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
            android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
            android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Title"
            android:text="@{task.titleForList}"
            app:completedTask="@{task.completed}" />
    </LinearLayout>
</layout>

3- Use ListAdapter, this is new and calculates line differences by itself and on a worker thread, instead of RecyclerView.Adapter and bind SomeObject and ViewModel to this adapter.

/** * Adapter for the task list. Has a reference to the [TaskListViewModel] to send actions back to it. */

class TasksAdapter(private val viewModel: TaskListViewModel) :
        ListAdapter<Task, CustomViewHolder>(TaskDiffCallback()) {

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: CustomViewHolder, position: Int) {
        val item = getItem(position)

        holder.bind(viewModel, item)
    }

    override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): CustomViewHolder {
        return CustomViewHolder.from(parent)
    }

    class CustomViewHolder private constructor(val binding: TaskItemBinding) :
            RecyclerView.ViewHolder(binding.root) {

        fun bind(viewModel: TaskListViewModel, item: Task) {

            binding.viewmodel = viewModel
            binding.task = item
            binding.executePendingBindings()
        }

        companion object {
            fun from(parent: ViewGroup): CustomViewHolder {
                val layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context)
                val binding = TaskItemBinding.inflate(layoutInflater, parent, false)

                return CustomViewHolder(binding)
            }
        }
    }
}

/**
 * Callback for calculating the diff between two non-null items in a list.
 *
 * Used by ListAdapter to calculate the minimum number of changes between and old list and a new
 * list that's been passed to `submitList`.
 */
class TaskDiffCallback : DiffUtil.ItemCallback<Task>() {
    override fun areItemsTheSame(oldItem: Task, newItem: Task): Boolean {
        return oldItem.id == newItem.id
    }

    override fun areContentsTheSame(oldItem: Task, newItem: Task): Boolean {
        return oldItem == newItem
    }
}

Answer 2

Change this like below in viewmodel

   private MutableLiveData<List<Feed>> feedListLivedata =  new MutableLiveData<>();;



 public MyViewModel() {
    //create a list of feed here
    setFeeds(feeds);
}



public void setFeeds( List<Feed>  feeds) {
        feedListLivedata .postValue(feeds);
    }

//create getter and setter for feed list live data.

And now in xml

 app:items="@{viewModel.feedListLivedata }"