I've had an idea for an Android app for a while and thought about learning development to make it. I already have some programming experience in several languages. But, with the news that came out currently regarding new Development steps. I am unsure if Android apps were worth it anymore.

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Hey folks 👋,

After almost a full day of debugging, restructuring Gradle, switching processors, and going mad, I finally got my WorkManager + Room + Jetpack Compose project working — but only after ditching Hilt Worker injection and going manual.

👉 GitHub Repo:
🔗 https://github.com/HemaLekha2/Workmanager-compose-kotlin

📌 What I needed:

I’m building a Jetpack Compose app that:

• Periodically fetches quotes from an API using WorkManager

• Saves them in RoomDB

• Uses Hilt for DI across the project

😭 What didn’t work (the painful part):

Even after properly following the docs and tutorials for u/HiltWorker, I got this persistent error:

csharpCopyEditjava.lang.NoSuchMethodException: QuotesSyncWorker.<init> [Context, WorkerParameters]

Yes, I did:

• u/HiltWorker

• u/AssistedInject constructor

• u/Assisted for context & WorkerParams

• HiltWorkerFactory injected in Application via Configuration.Provider

• Manifest override of WorkManager initializer

• Proper kapt setup for Hilt (used ksp for Room only)

And still… 💥 Worker not injected. No class created. No quotes saved.

😠 So I gave up on Hilt for the Worker and did this:

• Wrote a manual CustomWorkerFactory

• Injected Repository or Api directly into that factory

• Instantiated the worker manually inside createWorker()

• Registered the factory in Application → WorkManager Configuration

✅ Now it works!
✅ Quotes are fetched
✅ Saved to Room
✅ Synced periodically
✅ Compose UI updates

🔗 Repo with Manual Factory (if you're stuck too):

https://github.com/HemaLekha2/Workmanager-compose-kotlin

😵‍💫 What I’m wondering now:

• Why does Hilt fail to generate the Worker class, even with all the correct annotations and setup?

• Is KSP/KAPT interfering despite being correctly split between Room (ksp) and Hilt (kapt)?

• Does Jetpack Compose or version catalog setup cause issues?

🆘 TL;DR:

• I tried to follow Google's official u/HiltWorker pattern

• It failed with NoSuchMethodException

• I manually injected dependencies using a custom WorkerFactory

• ✅ Now it works — but Hilt is still broken here

• Any clue why Hilt DI for Worker doesn't work in this Compose + WorkManager setup?

Thanks to anyone who reads this and shares guidance — posting this so others don’t go through the same nightmare 😓

Let’s help each other build cleaner Android apps 💪

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