Android data binding "Missing import expression although it is registered" after upgrade to gradle 5.0

Question

After I upgrade my Android studio to 3.4, Android Gradle Plugin to 3.4 and gradle to 5.1.1

I got the data binding errors like below

I have made sure I cleaned project and rebuild, I have cleared cache and restarted AS.

This issue never happened before the upgrade

I can confirm it is because of the new gradle update

DataBinderMapperImpl.java:54: error: cannot find symbol

e: [kapt] An exception occurred: android.databinding.tool.util.LoggedErrorException: Found data binding errors. ****/ data binding error ****msg:Missing import expression although it is registered

I found the solution: Solution:

1. Now 3.4.1 released, use 3.4.1
2. Remove all import type in layout XML
3. Remove all string from import type in layout XML
4. Remove all integer from import type in layout XML

Answer 1

After I upgraded my Android studio and gradle plugin, I ran into similar issue because of the below line. I was using this <import type="java.lang.String" /> in my layout file. Removing this import solved the issue.

Just as in managed code, java.lang.* is imported automatically.

Answer 2

I also face these errors in data binding. I tried with 'android.databinding.enableV2=true', it is not working. After I redo databinding for a layout.xml, I found these solutions. if I'm using 'android.view.View' in layout.xml, I did import View and declare variable like this,

<data>
    <import type="java.util.List" />        
    <import type="android.view.View" />
    <import type="com.example.android.mobilepos.data.pojos.ActionData" />
    <variable
        name="view"
        type="View" />
    <variable  name="actionList"  type="java.util.List&lt;com.example.android.mobilepos.data.pojos.ActionData>" />

And used variable view in like this.

 <EditText
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
   android:id="@+id/txt_payment_remark"                           
   android:hint="@string/hint_payment_remark"                            
   android:visibility="@{switch1.checked ? view.VISIBLE : view.GONE}" />
 <androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
                android:id="@+id/action_data_list"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:background="@color/color_white"
                android:focusable="true"
                android:clickable="true"
                app:actionSource="@{actionList}"
              app:layoutManager="androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager"                    app:layout_behavior="com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout$ScrollingViewBehavior"
                tools:context=".ui.fragments.NewInvoiceFragment"
                tools:listitem="@layout/fragment_new_invoice">

I also did for Integer.toString() feature like this, but can't import and use Integer in layout.xml. So I shift Integer value to strings.xml with %d label.

 <EditText
     android:id="@+id/txt_qty"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"                        
     android:hint="@string/hint_quantity"
     android:inputType="number"
     android:maxLength="5"
     android:maxLines="1"
     android:singleLine="true"
     android:text="@{@string/shipment_qty(product.qty)}"
     android:textAlignment="center"
     android:textColor="@color/black"
     android:textStyle="bold"                        
     tools:text="1000" />

I hope these will solve your problems.

Answer 3

I assume you are using gradle plugin version 3.4 (not 4.3 as you mentioned in question). See the list of available gradle-plugin version https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin#updating-gradle. There is change in data binding compiler option https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/data-binding/start#preview-compiler

To enable the new data binding compiler, add the following option to your gradle.properties file:

android.databinding.enableV2=true