I noticed these two projects are the same or are they different ??

Hi. Thanks for the great tutorials.

I am fairly new to these MVP, MVVM stuff and trying to find my feet. My questions are

1- You are not using the official Data Binding library. Shall this be considered bad approach, especially when you are using LiveData?

2- If conducting interviews, would you tend to favor more those guys who implement MVVM using "RxJava + Observer" rather than native LiveData + Data Binding + Observer? Why do I feel interviewers will shoot me in the head if I am not using RxJava.

Thanks again :)

Hi mitch,
In order to follow along I suggest to change the subscribeObservers() Method in the branch "Building a second View Model" with the one you are actually using in the tutorial to test if the ingredients are actually printed to the log.
The one you have here in this branch is related to the next branch where the widgets are set.

private void subscribeObservers(){
mRecipeViewModel.getRecipe().observe(this, new Observer() {
@OverRide
public void onChanged(@nullable Recipe recipe) {
if(recipe != null){
Log.d(TAG, "onChanged: --------------------------------------------");
Log.d(TAG, "onChanged: " + recipe.getTitle());
for(String ingredient: recipe.getIngredients()){
Log.d(TAG, "onChanged: " + ingredient);
}
}
}
});
}