I've heard conflicting views on this, but should I...

# android

[kevin.cianfarini]

I've heard conflicting views on this, but should I be avoiding the Kotlin synthetics for binding views?

[jw]

Well that's because it's opinion based. And by asking the question again, you'll get the same set of differing opinions.

[jw]

I vote no, if it matters.

[rkeazor]

I second that. For every piece of technology/framework/library/language/architecture , There is always at least 10 devs that hate it😂

[pg]

As far as I know, kotlin's synthetic view binding is hated due to no view caching in some cases. Despite of it, I like synthetics, always simpler than delegates / annotations or whatever. In my opinion workaround for mentioned cases may be something like this:
val btn : Button = xx_yy_button
Although not tested by myself yet.

[jw]

It also lacks safety that the references are actually from the layout you're using and are present in every configuration of that layout.

[rkeazor]

@pg are you sure about that? I believe there is caching... look at section on view caching

[rkeazor]

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/android-plugin.html

[kevin.cianfarini]

@jw when you say you vote no, do you mean I shouldn't avoid them or I should avoid them? I'm assuming no

[jw]

Avoid

[kevin.cianfarini]

gotcha, thanks