Factory

Kotlin |Java

interface Factory

Known Direct Subclasses

Simple factory, which calls empty constructor on the give class.

Known Indirect Subclasses

ViewModelProvider.AndroidViewModelFactory	`Factory` which may create `AndroidViewModel` and `ViewModel`, which have an empty constructor.
ViewModelProviders.DefaultFactory	`Factory` which may create `AndroidViewModel` and `ViewModel`, which have an empty constructor.

Implementations of Factory interface are responsible to instantiate ViewModels.

Summary

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

@NonNull abstract fun <T : ViewModel!> create(@NonNull modelClass: Class<T>): T

Creates a new instance of the given Class.

Parameters
`modelClass`	Class<T>: a `Class` whose instance is requested
`<T>`	Class<T>: The type parameter for the ViewModel.

Return
T: a newly created ViewModel