How to update LiveData of a ViewModel from background service and Update UI

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Recently I am exploring Android Architecture, that has been introduced recently by google. From the Documentation I have found this:

public class MyViewModel extends ViewModel {
    private MutableLiveData<List<User>> users;
    public LiveData<List<User>> getUsers() {
        if (users == null) {
            users = new MutableLiveData<List<Users>>();
            loadUsers();
        }
        return users;
    }

    private void loadUsers() {
        // do async operation to fetch users
    }
}

the activity can access this list as follows:

public class MyActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        MyViewModel model = ViewModelProviders.of(this).get(MyViewModel.class);
        model.getUsers().observe(this, users -> {
            // update UI
        });
    }
}

My Question is, I am going to do this:

  1. in the loadUsers() function I am fetching the data asynchronously where I will first check the database(Room) for that data

  2. If I do not get the data there I will make an API call to fetch the data from the web server.

  3. I will insert the fetched data into the database(Room) and update the UI according the data.

What is the recommended approach to do this?

If I start a Service to call the API from the loadUsers() method, how can I update the MutableLiveData<List<User>> users variable from that Service?

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5 Answers

If you are calling your api in Repository then,

In Repository:

public MutableLiveData<LoginResponseModel> checkLogin(LoginRequestModel loginRequestModel) {
    final MutableLiveData<LoginResponseModel> data = new MutableLiveData<>();
    apiService.checkLogin(loginRequestModel)
            .enqueue(new Callback<LoginResponseModel>() {
                @Override
                public void onResponse(@NonNull Call<LoginResponseModel> call, @Nullable Response<LoginResponseModel> response) {
                    if (response != null && response.isSuccessful()) {
                        data.postValue(response.body());
                        Log.i("Response ", response.body().getMessage());
                    }
                }

                @Override
                public void onFailure(@NonNull Call<LoginResponseModel> call, Throwable t) {
                    data.postValue(null);
                }
            });
    return data;
}

In ViewModel

public LiveData<LoginResponseModel> getUser() {
    loginResponseModelMutableLiveData = repository.checkLogin(loginRequestModel);
    return loginResponseModelMutableLiveData;
}

In Activity/Fragment

loginViewModel.getUser().observe(LoginActivity.this, loginResponseModel -> {
        if (loginResponseModel != null) {
            Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this, loginResponseModel.getUser().getType(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    });

Note : Using JAVA_1.8 lambda here, you can use without it

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