DefaultActivityViewModelFactory not found

Question

After migrating the Hilt version from 2.33-beta to 2.35 my project has stopped building with the error given below:

A txt version:

error: cannot access DefaultActivityViewModelFactory    
  class file for dagger.hilt.android.internal.lifecycle.DefaultActivityViewModelFactory not found   
  Consult the following stack trace for details.    
  com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: class file for dagger.hilt.android.internal.lifecycle.DefaultActivityViewModelFactory not found

A snippet of my build.gradle (project):

buildscript {
    ext.hilt_version = '2.33-beta'
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.3'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.4.32"
        ...
        classpath "com.google.dagger:hilt-android-gradle-plugin:$hilt_version"
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

A snippet of my build.gradle (app):

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-parcelize'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'
apply plugin: 'dagger.hilt.android.plugin'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 29
    ...

    defaultConfig {
        javaCompileOptions {
            annotationProcessorOptions {
                arguments += [
                        "room.schemaLocation": "$projectDir/schemas".toString(),
                        "room.incremental"   : "true"
                ]
            }
        }
    }

    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }

    testOptions {
        execution 'ANDROIDX_TEST_ORCHESTRATOR'
    }

    buildFeatures {
        viewBinding true
        dataBinding true
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    ...

    //DI
    implementation "com.google.dagger:hilt-android:$hilt_version"
    implementation "androidx.hilt:hilt-lifecycle-viewmodel:1.0.0-alpha03"
    implementation 'androidx.hilt:hilt-work:1.0.0-beta01'
    kapt "com.google.dagger:hilt-compiler:$hilt_version"
    kapt "com.google.dagger:hilt-android-compiler:$hilt_version"
    kapt 'androidx.hilt:hilt-compiler:1.0.0-beta01'

    // INSTRUMENTED TESTS
    ...
    androidTestImplementation "com.google.dagger:hilt-android-testing:$hilt_version"
    kaptAndroidTest "com.google.dagger:hilt-android-compiler:$hilt_version"
    androidTestImplementation "androidx.work:work-testing:2.5.0"

    //KOTLIN
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.4.32"

    //LIFECYCLE
    implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-common-java8:2.3.1'
    implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx:2.3.1'
    implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-livedata-ktx:2.3.1'

    // WORK MANAGER
    implementation "androidx.work:work-runtime-ktx:2.5.0"
}

Does anyone meet that error and know what may be the solution?

Answer 1

Removing the dependency on hilt-lifecycle-viewmodel causes the error to go away as it is no longer required in newer versions of hilt. Simply delete this line from your app level build.gradle file if you have it.

implementation 'androidx.hilt:hilt-lifecycle-viewmodel:x.x.x'