Not possible to add non-Android module to Android Koin

[Unlimity]

Hi there! Thanks for your hard work on Koin! Great library.
Anyway, I faced an issue, where you force to provide list of AndroidModule's to Application.startKoin(). Thus it is impossible to provide modules that are built, for example, in data or domain layers, which are usually written without platform dependencies.
Briefly looking through your code, I haven't found any serious reason to force AndroidModule for android artifact. What do you think? This will be a big win, if your android artifact's startKoin function will accept all descendants of Module.

[arnaudgiuliani]

Hello,

Koin 0.7.0 brings a better DSL and Koin modules won't have any dependency with Android classes. Up to you to inject Application/Context dependencies or not.

The startKoin() from 0.7.0 will accept Modules as you pointed, allowing to build fully independent modules for Android.

Wait the next days, for the next release (hope to release it before xmas :) )

[Unlimity]

Great news!
BTW, could you specify a bit how the system will behave in that way. Are non android modules will be bound to application? Or they will live forever?
And how I understand it, sub context dependencies will still be able to cleared even if they are not in android module, right?

[arnaudgiuliani]

AndroidModule only give you some shortcuts to inject Application instance (the androidApplication property). this will be available again, with a classic injection (get())

Sub context is a core feature. You can drop context even if you are not in an Android app.

[arnaudgiuliani]

I'm working on a new website to give better documentation. Check insert-koin.io next days or our twitter account : @insertkoin_io

[arnaudgiuliani]

You can check the Koin 0.7.1 on https://insert-koin.io