Katana

General

Category
Free
Tag
Dependency Injections
License
MIT License
Min SDK
1 (Android 1.0)
Registered
Dec 11, 2018
Favorites
1
Link
https://github.com/rewe-digital-incubator/katana
See also
google/dagger
Shortbread
Vitamin Saber
AndroidAnnotations
Stabbed Android

Additional

Language
Kotlin
Version
1.15.0 (May 6, 2021)
Created
Oct 29, 2018
Updated
Jan 13, 2022 (Retired)
Owner
REWE Digital GmbH (rewe-digital-incubator)
Contributors
Brian Dupuis (bjdupuis)
Sven Jacobs (svenjacobs)
Dinesh Gangatharan (dineshvg)
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Blurb

‼️ This project is not maintained anymore. For more information read this statement. ‼️

Katana

Katana is a lightweight, minimalistic dependency injection library (similar to the service locator pattern) for Kotlin on the JVM, designed especially with Android in mind.

  • Extremely lightweight footprint (only ~15kB in classes and ~130 methods after ProGuard), plain Kotlin, no third-party dependencies
  • It's fast (also see this comparison)
  • "Less is more", therefore:
    • No global singleton state. Likelihood of memory leaks is greatly reduced unless YOU are doing something wrong ;P
    • No reflection (see this regarding type erasure)
    • No code generation (unless inline functions count)
    • No dependency overrides possible (see Overrides)

Getting Started

Want to know more? Please read Getting Started.

Artifacts

Katana consists of a core library and several additional libraries that extend Katana's functionality. All artifact are published in group org.rewedigital.katana. Here's a quick overview of all available artifacts:

Artifact Description
katana-core Provides core functionality. Suitable for plain Kotlin (JVM) and Android.
katana-android Android-specific extensions like modules for Activity and Fragment, KatanaFragment etc.
katana-androidx-fragment Additional support for androidx.fragment providing a Katana-based FragmentFactory.
katana-androidx-viewmodel Enables dependency injection for AndroidX ViewModel.
katana-androidx-viewmodel-savedstate Support for AndroidX ViewModel with SavedState.

License

The MIT license (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2018-2021 REWE Digital GmbH

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.