Android ViewModel has no zero argument constructor

While initializing subclasses of ViewModel using ViewModelProviders, by default it expects your UserModel class to have a zero argument constructor. In your case your constructor has the argument MutableLiveData<User> user.

One way to fix this is to have a default no arg constructor for your UserModel.

Otherwise, if you want to have a non-zero argument constructor for your ViewModel class, you may have to create a custom ViewModelFactory class to initialise your ViewModel instance, which implements the ViewModelProvider.Factory interface.

I have not tried this yet, but here's a link to an excellent Google sample for this: github.com/googlesamples/android-architecture-components. Specifically, check out this class GithubViewModelFactory.java for Java code and this class GithubViewModelFactory.kt for the corresponding Kotlin code.

In my case as I'm using HILT, it was lacking one annotation above the Fragment that has a ViewModel: @AndroidEntryPoint

@AndroidEntryPoint
class BestFragment : Fragment() { 
....

Of course in your ViewModel class you also need to Annotate with what HILT needs: @ViewModelInject

class BestFragmentViewModel @ViewModelInject constructor(var userManager: UserManager) : ViewModel() {
....
}

ViewModelFactory that will provide us a right ViewModel from ViewModelModule

public class ViewModelFactory implements ViewModelProvider.Factory {
    private final Map<Class<? extends ViewModel>, Provider<ViewModel>> viewModels;

    @Inject
    public ViewModelFactory(Map<Class<? extends ViewModel>, Provider<ViewModel>> viewModels) {
        this.viewModels = viewModels;
    }

    @Override
    public <T extends ViewModel> T create(Class<T> modelClass) {
        Provider<ViewModel> viewModelProvider = viewModels.get(modelClass);

        if (viewModelProvider == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("model class " + modelClass + " not found");
        }

        return (T) viewModelProvider.get();
    }
}

ViewModelModule is responsible for binding all over ViewModel classes into
Map<Class<? extends ViewModel>, Provider<ViewModel>> viewModels

@Module
public abstract class ViewModelModule {

    @Binds
    abstract ViewModelProvider.Factory bindViewModelFactory(ViewModelFactory viewModelFactory); 
    //You are able to declare ViewModelProvider.Factory dependency in another module. For example in ApplicationModule.

    @Binds
    @IntoMap
    @ViewModelKey(UserViewModel.class)
    abstract ViewModel userViewModel(UserViewModel userViewModel);
    
    //Others ViewModels
}

ViewModelKey is an annotation for using as a key in the Map and looks like

@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@MapKey
@interface ViewModelKey {
    Class<? extends ViewModel> value();
}

Now you are able to create ViewModel and satisfy all necessary dependencies from the graph

public class UserViewModel extends ViewModel {
    private UserFacade userFacade;

    @Inject
    public UserViewModel(UserFacade userFacade) { // UserFacade should be defined in one of dagger modules
        this.userFacade = userFacade;
    }
} 

Instantiating ViewModel

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Inject
    ViewModelFactory viewModelFactory;
    UserViewModel userViewModel;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        ((App) getApplication()).getAppComponent().inject(this);

        userViewModel = ViewModelProviders.of(this, viewModelFactory).get(UserViewModel.class);

    }
}

And do not forger to add ViewModelModule into modules list

@Singleton
@Component(modules = {ApplicationModule.class, ViewModelModule.class})
public interface ApplicationComponent {
    //
}

For Hilt:

Simple add @AndroidEntryPoint for main acticity and fragments, and @HiltViewModel for viewModels

Example after:

@HiltViewModel
class SplashViewModel @Inject constructor(

@AndroidEntryPoint
class SplashFragment : Fragment() {
    private lateinit var b: SplashFragmentBinding
    private val vm: SplashViewModel by viewModels()

@AndroidEntryPoint
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    private lateinit var binding: ActivityMainBinding