How to Use View Binding in RecyclerView Adapter
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2 min readSep 7, 2020
View binding is a feature that allows you to more easily write code that interacts with views. Once view binding is enabled in a module, it generates a binding class for each XML layout file present in that module. An instance of a binding class contains direct references to all views that have an ID in the corresponding layout.
Advantages of view binding
- Null safety: Since view binding creates direct references to views, there’s no risk of a null pointer exception due to an invalid view ID. Additionally, when a view is only present in some configurations of a layout, the field containing its reference in the binding class is marked with
@Nullable. - Type safety: The fields in each binding class have types matching the views they reference in the XML file. This means that there’s no risk of a class cast exception.
Adding view binding to your new or existing project
View binding is enabled on a module by module basis. To enable view binding in a module, set the view binding build option to true in the module-level build.gradle file, as shown in the example below:
Simple RecyclerView adapter with view Binding
for more usage of view binding, use the link below
