Google stands for single activity architecture.
In case you need to share data across multiple fragments - use viewmodel scoped to an activity.
But it is the only activity, so viewmodel will live till ethernity. Just like a global singleton object!

Usually you dont need to share data across all of your screens, but only across small subflows.
When subflow ends, the data should be freed and never reused. So, viewmodel should be scoped to a list of fragments, which is the task this library solves!

ScopedViewModelProviders
     .forScope(fragment, "scope")
     .of(activity)
     .get(MyViewModel::class.java)

So what is ScopedViewModelProviders.forScope(fragment, "scope")?
"scope" is just a string, used to identify scope
fragment is the fragment that requests viewmodel, usually you will use this.

When fragment requests viewmodel a subscription is created. Subscription is released automatically when the fragment is destroyed. When the last fragment of scope is destroyed, all viewmodels for this scope get cleared.

Add this to your root build.gradle

allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

Add this to your module build.gradle

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.dhabensky:scoped-vm:1.0'
}