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No More findViewById
One of the little-known features of developing an Android application with Android Studio is data binding. With it comes many excellent…features that I’ll be covering in future articles, but the most basic thing you get is elimination of findViewById. Isn’t this just a pain in the neck? There are tools available whose main job is to eliminate this small bit of code, but now there is an official way with Android Studio 1.5 and higher. First, you must edit your Application’s build.gradle file and add the following into the android block: The next thing is to change the layout file by making the outer tag <layout> instead of…
Android Data Binding: That <include> Thing
When layouts <include> other <layout>sIn the last article you saw how easy it is to avoid using findViewById with Android Studio 1.5 and higher. This is essentially the View Holder pattern as described here: I showed how to use Android Studio to generate a class that acts as a View Holder for a single layout file, but what about included layouts? What about merged included layouts? It turns out that those are also supported, but each layout file generates a different class.