Android Fundamentals: Data Binding

A soup-to-nuts exploration of the Android Data Binding library.

Binding data to views in Android can be an exercise in redundancy. We have typed the methods 'findViewById' and 'setText' many times and have consigned ourselves to the monotony. At Google I/O 2015, a new data binding library was announced that promises to free us from much of the boilerplate code we write for our views. Even in its beta release, the library is powerful and useful. The Data Binding Guide provided by Google teases the capabilities of this library. This course will explore the details of the data-binding library mixing both theory and practice. After finishing the course, you will have a solid foundation on how to use the data binding library to reduce your development time and increase your code clarity.

• Introduction 8mins
• Simple Data Binding 35mins
• Custom and Dynamic Binding 25mins
• Observables 20mins
• Pitfalls and Pro-tips 9mins