What's the difference between these two? I think they both annotate a singleton object/instance, but somehow @Singleton can be used to annotate methods, instead of classes. I'm really confused about both of them.
@Singleton vs @InstallIn(SingletonComponent::class)
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ApplicationComponent being renamed to SingletonComponent, to allow usage of Hilt in non-Android Gradle modules link
but @Singleton is a software design pattern link
@SingletonComponent specifies that it can be used in the entire application.
@Singleton is a software design pattern causes the object to be initialized once.
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