Should I use DataBinding in a RecyclerView? Or is it an overkill?

In the component or in the items? In the RecyclerView itself, it may be not necessary. But in the items is a good call to avoid ViewHolders.

Using it in place of findViewById...

You can simply use Kotlin Synthetic access for it. Or wait for the new View Binding. 😊

Meh, yeah... Kotlin Synthetic in comparison to DataBinding, any performance difference or tradeoffs?

I'm guessing it's not stable yet?

No, it is not. I would go with Synthetic if you only need the

findViewById

. Data Binding seems like a overkill.

Okay... Thanks

My information might be out-of-date, but one consideration you might make is that synthetics in `ViewHolder`s have to be re-evaluated every time it is reused. This can affect performance

isn't it what

LayoutContainer

for? Iirc it will be cached.

You’re correct. I wasn’t aware of

LayoutContainer

until you mentioned it. Relevant docs: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/android-plugin.html#layoutcontainer-support

What's the objective of layout container?