I am using MutableLiveData within my application for event based communication. I have single activity two fragments architecture.
With the help of ViewModel, I'm consuming the LiveData events in Fragment-1. But, when I replace this Fragment-1 with Fragment-2 using Menu bar and finally come back to Fragment-1, old values of LiveData are captured again.
How to avoid this problem? Any help/suggestions are highly appreciated! Thank you.
You can use Event
to wrap LiveData
values to handle consuming its values as in the following article:
https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/livedata-with-snackbar-navigation-and-other-events-the-singleliveevent-case-ac2622673150
Event class would be like:
open class Event<out T>(private val content: T) {
var hasBeenHandled = false
private set // Allow external read but not write
/**
* Returns the content and prevents its use again.
*/
fun getContentIfNotHandled(): T? {
return if (hasBeenHandled) {
null
} else {
hasBeenHandled = true
content
}
}
/**
* Returns the content, even if it's already been handled.
*/
fun peekContent(): T = content
}
Let us say that your LiveData value is a String then the LiveData of single event would be like:
val navigateToDetails = MutableLiveData<Event<String>>()