31.4 Migrating a Fragment to View Binding

As with the Empty Activity template, Android Studio 4.2 does not enable view binding support when new fragments are added to a project. Before moving to the next step of this tutorial, therefore, we will need to perform this migration. Begin by editing the ToolbarFragment.java file and importing the binding for the fragment as follows:

import com.ebookfrenzy.fragmentexample.databinding.FragmentToolbarBinding;

Next, locate the onCreateView() method and make the following declarations and changes (which also include adding the onDestroyView() method to ensure that the binding reference is removed when the fragment is destroyed):

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private FragmentToolbarBinding binding;

 

@Override

public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,

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