#guice

RoboGuice is a fantastic dependency injection framework for Android that wraps Google’s Guice DI library with a set of helper classes and default injections that can make an Android developer’s life much easier. Unfortunately, this comes at a cost. Guice was not designed with mobile devices in mind and instead targets servers where objects startup is long but once you’re up, responses need to be quick. Because of this, startup times for apps using RoboGuice can be noticably long in the best case and uncomfortably long if you’re not careful. [Read More]

Anyone who has used a dependency injection (DI) framework on a project can likely speak to its benefits when creating complex systems. Relying on it can help an engineer to design and implement clean, testable software. Anyone who has tried to write Android applications using a DI framework has likely been disappointed in some degree with current offerings. DI frameworks in Java have largely been written with server architectures in mind and as such are either generally too resource heavy to work on a mobile device. [Read More]