Android : Difference between DataBinding and ViewBinding

Question

We are using DataBinding since Jetpack release. Android documentation indicates that ViewBinding was added in Android Studio 3.6 Canary 11+.

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Answer 1

ViewBinding VS Databinding

Here is why I wanted to explain ViewBinding and DataBinding together.

As you can see, ViewBinding is a sort of subset of DataBinding libraries which means ViewBinding and DataBiding can do the same jobs in terms of binding layouts. And it would also mean with DataBinding, you might not need ViewBinding cause it will do what ViewBinding is supposed to do and also provide a bit of an extra functionalities such as 2way binding, and using variables in XML files.

Then, this can lead to a question

"Then let's just use DataBinding as it sounds much more fancy!"

Hold on. As much as it sounds fancy, it is a pretty heavy loaded library which might cause a longer compile time. So if you are not going to use DataBinding only functionalities then might be better to consider ViewBinding as it does have some advantages in terms of build time and apk size.

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