Difference between `@Provides` vs `@Binds` in Hilt?

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•Provides vs Binds in Dependency Injection?•Subcomponent vs Component dependency in Dagger?•What is a Subcomponent and its use in Dagger?•Constructor Injection vs Method Injection?•What is the Scope in Dependency Injection?•What is a Circular Dependency in Dagger? How to resolve it?•What is interesting about Hilt?•What are your thoughts on Koin?•Provides vs binds •Subcomponent vs. component dependency, what is the difference under the hood •What is a subcomponent and what is its use? How do you use qualifiers or how would you provide different instances of a class with the same data type? Constructor Injection V/s Method Injection? What is the scope? Singleton Annotation?•What is Circular dependency in dagger? and how to resolve it •What's interesting about Hilt?•Did you use Koin? What are your thoughts on it?▶Difference between `@Provides` vs `@Binds` in Hilt?•Scoping annotations (`@Singleton`, `@ActivityRetainedScoped`)?•Qualifier annotations (`@Named` etc)?•Constructor Injection vs Field Injection?•Hilt Application Component vs Activity Component?•What is Assisted Injection in Hilt?•What are Multibindings with Dagger/Hilt?•What is Lazy Injection?•Explain Scopes in Koin?

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