How do you re-inject an android object, (Service,

I have a Service that has a DaggerServiceComponent that will inject all of the Services dependencies successfully.

The problem is that I also have a ServiceManager class, which needs a reference to the Service in order to "Manage" service tasks. i.e.

Application

  public class ApplicationBase extends Application implements HasServiceInjector {

    @Inject
    DispatchingAndroidInjector<Service> dispatchingAndroidServiceInjector;

    protected void setupServiceComponent(Context context) {
        ServiceContextModule serviceContextModule = new ServiceContextModule(context);
        ServiceComponent serviceComponent = DaggerServiceComponent.builder().serviceContextModule(serviceContextModule).build();
        serviceComponent.inject(this);

    }


    @Override
    public AndroidInjector<Service> serviceInjector() {
        return dispatchingAndroidServiceInjector;
    }

}

Component

@Singleton
@Component(modules = {  /* modules */})
public interface ServiceComponent extends AndroidInjector<ApplicationBase > {

    ServiceManager provideServiceManager();
    void inject(ApplicationBase appBase);
    // ..
}

Module

@Module
public abstract class MediaPlaybackServiceModule {

    @ContributesAndroidInjector
    abstract MediaPlaybackService provideMediaPlaybackService();

}

MediaPlaybackService MyService

public class MediaPlaybackService extends MediaBrowserServiceCompat {
   // ...
  private ServiceManager serviceManager;

  @Override
  public void onCreate() {
    init();
    super.onCreate();
    // ...
  }
  /**
   * TO BE CALLED BEFORE SUPER CLASS
   */
  private void init() {
    AndroidInjection.inject(this);
    serviceManager.setMediaPlaybackService(this);
  }

  //...
  // declaration of other dependencies
}

If you look at what I currently do at the moment, I manually add a call to the setter method to set "service" reference in the ServiceManager class which was successfully injected.

The service manager class looks as follows:

public class ServiceManager {

    @Inject
    public ServiceManager(MediaSessionAdapter mediaSession,
                          MyNotificationManager myNotificationManager) {
        this.mediaSession = mediaSession;
        this.notificationManager = myNotificationManager;
    }

    // BODY OF CLASS

    public void setMediaPlaybackService(MediaPlaybackService mediaPlaybackService) {
        this.service = mediaPlaybackService;
    }
}

but I would ideally like to have the service manager constructor to look like

@Inject
public ServiceManager(MediaPlaybackService mediaPlaybackService, MediaSessionAdapter mediaSession,
                      MyNotificationManager myNotificationManager) {
    this.service = mediaPlaybackService;
    this.mediaSession = mediaSession;
    this.notificationManager = myNotificationManager;
}

What changes do I need to make do my dagger2 code to be able to achieve this?

NOTE: for simplicity I have removed the extra code used in the application, but it can be found here

So for all those who are facing a similar problem to myself I've been do a lot of experimentation with dagger-android and found it a lot simpler to do the following:

1) Make Activity abstract

public abstract MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
  ...
  abstract void initDependencies();
  ...

  @Inject
  public void setMyDependency(MyDependency myDependency) { ... }
}

2) Make a subclass to initialise your dependencies hence removing a dagger dependency in your Activity

public MainActivityProduction extends MainActivity  {
  @Override
  void initDependencies() {
     DaggerMainActivityComponent.factory().create(..., this)
     .inject(this);
  }
  @Override
  public void onCreate() {
    initDependencies();
    super.onCreate();
  }
}

Note this allows for a separate component that could be used for testing as recommended in the dagger documentation https://dagger.dev/testing i.e.

public MainActivityTesting extends MainActivity  {
  @Override
  void initDependencies() {
     DaggerMainActivityTestingComponent.factory().create(..., this)
     .inject(this);
  }
  @Override
  public void onCreate() {
    initDependencies();
    super.onCreate();
  }
}

3) Your component would therefore look like:

@Component(modules = { /* modules */})
public interface MainActivityComponent {
  ...
  @Component.Factory
  interface Factory {
    MainActivityComponent create(...,
                    @BindsInstance MainActivity);
  }
}

meaning that you can have any module refer to your MainActivity

@Module
public class MyDependencyModule {

  @Provides
  public MyDependency providesMyDependency(MainActivity MainActivity) {
     return new MyDependency(mainActivity);
  }
}

This solution: