RoboGuice for dependency injection in Android

RoboGuice is a framework that brings the simplicity and ease of Dependency Injection to Android, using Google’s own Guice library.

The first you download
roboguice-2.0.jar
guice-3.0-no_aop.jar
jsr305-1.3.9.jar

Add the required libraries to the libs folder of you new android project.

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".TheDeveloperWorldIsYours" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello_world" />

</RelativeLayout>
package com.thedeveloperworldisyours.inject;

import com.google.inject.Inject;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import roboguice.activity.RoboActivity;
import roboguice.inject.InjectResource;
import roboguice.inject.InjectView;
import android.location.LocationManager;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class TheDeveloperWorldIsYours extends RoboActivity {

	@InjectView(R.id.text)
	  TextView name;
	
	@InjectResource(R.string.app_name)
	  String myAppName;
	
	@InjectResource(R.string.action_settings)
	  String myActionSettings;

	@InjectResource(R.string.hello_world)
		String myHelloWorld;
	
	  @Inject
	  LocationManager loc;
	
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_the_developer_world_is_yours);
    }


    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.the_developer_world_is_yours, menu);
        return true;
    }
    
}

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