added in version 1.0.0
belongs to Maven artifact android.arch.lifecycle:viewmodel:1.1.1

Summary: Methods

ViewModelProvider.Factory

The android.arch Architecture Components packages are no longer maintained. They have been superseded by the corresponding androidx.* packages. See androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider.Factory instead.

public static interface ViewModelProvider.Factory

android.arch.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider.Factory

Known indirect subclasses

ViewModelProvider.AndroidViewModelFactory	`ViewModelProvider.Factory` which may create `AndroidViewModel` and `ViewModel`, which have an empty constructor.
ViewModelProvider.NewInstanceFactory	Simple factory, which calls empty constructor on the give class.
ViewModelProviders.DefaultFactory	This class was deprecated in API level 1.1.0. Use `ViewModelProvider.AndroidViewModelFactory`

Implementations of Factory interface are responsible to instantiate ViewModels.

Summary

Public methods
`abstract <T extends ViewModel> T`	`create(Class<T> modelClass)` Creates a new instance of the given `Class`.

added in version 1.0.0

T create (Class<T> modelClass)

Creates a new instance of the given Class.

Parameters
`modelClass`	`Class`: a `Class` whose instance is requested

Returns
`T`	a newly created ViewModel