New In Android: View Binding. The Difference From DataBinding Library.
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4 min readMay 16, 2019
No, they are not the same, even if the naming sounds really similar. ViewBindings were introduced at the What’s new in Android talk at Google IO/19. It is a new API and it has a similar concept as DataBinding so let’s figure out the difference and what we can leverage from it.
What is view binding?