DataBinding not working after Upgrade Android Studio 2.3

Question

DataBinding worked very well in my project, But after upgrade Android Studio 2.3 today . Run \'app\' failed because following error :

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Answer 1

android-apt and hence using apt has been deprecated since Android Studio 2.2.
Following the android-apt migration guide, instead add the following to your build.gradle:

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.0' // use same gradle version!
    annotationProcessor 'com.android.databinding:compiler:2.3.0'
}

If you are using Kolin, instead use:

apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.0' // use same gradle version!
    kapt 'com.android.databinding:compiler:2.3.0'
}

Answer 2

I solved this problem by changing my version of gradle to:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1'

Since I am using Android Studio 3.0.1

Answer 3

The problem comes in a warning that is difficult to see amongst all of the errors:

Warning:Using incompatible plugins for the annotation processing: android-apt. This may result in an unexpected behavior.

If you remove apt, data binding works.

Answer 4

I too recently downloaded the latest version of android studio 2.3.3, because I was getting the same error in version 2.2.3 i.e Error:Failed to resolve: com.android.databinding:compiler:2.2.3 ,even in the latest version, I was getting the same error,I checked the project structure, In the File>Project Structure>Project , the Android Plugin version was still 2.2.3, I changed it to 2.3.3 and the build is successful and everything is working smoothly.

Answer 5

Two things Revert back your gradel-wrapper.properties distributionUrl to "https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip" Change the gradle version classpath to previous version "'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.3'"

P.S. Instant run will stop working on ADT with older gradle version.

Answer 6

Data binding also broke for us following the update to Android Studio v2.3. The GoLang Bind plugin became unable to generate library .aar files

Our problem was resolved via a combination of GoMobile version "+eb90329 Mar 7 2017" update and GoBind plugin revert to version "0.2.6" (although the current version is "0.2.8")

Update GoMobile:

  $ go get -u -x golang.org/x/mobile/cmd/gomobile
  $ gomobile init -x

Revert GoBind plugin in build.gradle:

  plugins {
    id "org.golang.mobile.bind" version "0.2.6"
  }

This solution is working on systems with go version 1.7.1 and 1.8 as well as Android Studio versions 2.1.2, 2.2.3, and 2.3.