One rapid question here. I’m trying to do syntheti...

# android

[Jorge Castillo]

One rapid question here. I’m trying to do synthetic import for a layout included in a different gradle module (a dependency of the app module)

[dragas]

Personally I'd avoid synthetic imports all together. As far as I remember that anko has findViewById<T>(int) which returns either that element or null, if it's not available. Then again, that's coming from Kotlin 1.0.5EAP

[Jorge Castillo]

Why would you use that when you can use the reference directly?

[rwachol]

findViewById return correct type for new build tools afaik

[dragas]

Why wouldn't you? It saves you the headache when diagnosing InvalidCastException issues.

[Jorge Castillo]

For the same reasons why you pick butterknife. You want to get rid of the view fetching boilerplate to avoid writing it all the time.

[Jorge Castillo]

Using anko for that has no big difference with using the standard Android findViewById