ViewModelAdapter | MVVM pattern in Adapter for Android | Model View Controller library

Your refreshShows() in your repository is only get called when a new network request is done. The idea of your livedata is to provide the latest result when its fragment/activity is recreated, so when your screen rotates or you resume an activity it doesnt triggers another request as the livedata already have the latest result and you dont have a stateful connection with your network database/server (if you were observing data from Room it would receive the latest change if any).

The simpliest way I find to "fix" this, is to actually have your viewmodel val shows to be a fun, like this:

I think you can improve ur code, using this repo as a base. It uses a single source of truth strategy using livedata. I think you will have to dig the repo a bit to understand the code, but to sum up, this code will get data from the api, store in ur room, and provide ur room query's anwer as a result, so observing this will do it all.

You can omit names only if you have single param. Kotlin will offer this single param as it. If you need more than one param, you have to be explicit. Try this code: