IMHO (and this is just an opinion take it with a grain of salt) I'd still use synthetic properties over the findViewbyID hassle, and if you have to do that and you have a lot of these repeated IDs, the alias gif looks helpful.
At the end of the day, this is your code base, and you need to do what works best for you and your team - so what do you think is the most readable and most maintainable solution? (Only you can answer that)