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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…