is anybody else having issues with ButterKnife?

# android

[theopaintsil]

is anybody else having issues with ButterKnife?

[Casey Brooks]

Butterknife doesn’t really work in Kotlin code (something with kapt? IDK). Just use the synthetic imports from Kotlin Android Extensions, or the new view-binding feature https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/view-binding

[theopaintsil]

thanks

[gildor]

Bitterknife does work with Kotlin code, and yes, you need kapt for this (as for any annotation processor who want to read Kotlin code)

[theopaintsil]

"The given artifact contains a string literal with a package reference 'android.support.v4' that cannot be safely rewritten. Libraries using reflection such as annotation processors need to be updated manually to add support for androidx.
"

[gildor]

But I personally wouldn't recommend to use neither Butterknife nor Kotlin Android Extensions.

[gildor]

Both are deprecated on practice (or at least do not evolve)

[theopaintsil]

@gildor what will you recommend?

[gildor]

Depends on what you need. Probably ViewBindings, but they are on early stage of development and you need beta version of AGP

[theopaintsil]

i have already used ButterKnife but i am having this issue today

[theopaintsil]

The given artifact contains a string literal with a package reference 'android.support.v4' that cannot be safely rewritten. Libraries using reflection such as annotation processors need to be updated manually to add support for androidx.

[gildor]

Are you sure that you use a new version of Butterknife? It's an issue with androidx. It was fixed a long time ago

[jw]

Make sure you're on 10.2.0

[jw]

Or, migrate to view binding 😁

[pavi2410]

Or wait for Jetpack Compose 😁😁

[theopaintsil]

thanks for the help

[theopaintsil]

very much appreciated

[theopaintsil]

the 10.2.0 worked