Dependancy injection in Android projects

[stephane599]

Hello,

I'm new in Android development and I would like to continue to use DI in my projects. (Create my application context in the onCreate method)

I think spring-android doesn't provide DI mechanism... Am I wrong?

By googleing, I found a framework called tiny-spring (http://www.tinyspring.com/)

Is it part of the spring framework?

Thanks in advance for your answers and advises.

Stephane

[mserioli]

I don't know tinyspring.. But if you want to take a look, I'm using http://code.google.com/p/roboguice/ to inject daos and services.

And if you wan't save some line of code take a look at http://androidannotations.org/ that is integrated with spring android rest!

[stephane599]

Thanks for this answer.

At first glance, it seems that both framework can achieve depency injection. I'll give a try to both.

But I ask myself why it (DI) isn't included in spring-android-core...

Stéphane

[mserioli]

I think it's to maintain the small size of package..

[Roy Clarkson]

That's correct, DI is not supported in Spring for Android. We have researched this issue, and because of performance concerns, at this time it is not a problem that Spring is addressing. We may address it in a future release, but for now we chose to focus on the core REST functionality.