Databinding

Bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format.
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The databinding library is bundled with the Android Gradle plugin. You do not need to declare a dependency on the library, but you must enable it.

To enable data binding, set the dataBinding build option to true in your module's build.gradle file, as shown below:

android {
    ...
    buildFeatures {
        dataBinding true
    }
}

For more information about data binding, see the guide to the data binding library, and the Android Studio release notes

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