The Evolution of Dependency Injection in Android

Dependency injection (DI) has undergone significant transformation in the Android development community over the years, especially with the introduction of Dagger and its subsequent versions. Initially launched in 2012, Dagger tackled key challenges related to Android's lifecycle management, providing a code generation approach that simplified dependency retrieval. However, performance issues in Dagger 1 due to the use of reflection led to the release of Dagger 2 in 2015, which improved performance at the cost of increased complexity, making it challenging for many developers. This trend of increasing complexity continued with the introduction of Dagger-Android and Coin, both aiming to ease the burden of boilerplate code, yet they brought their own confusions and limitations that some developers struggled to navigate.