Android Studio - Cant set buildFeatures databinding with Kotlin DSL

Rainmaker
July 12, 2021
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I am migrating to Kotlin dsl and I can’t set buildFeatures property databinding any more. It is missing from AppExtension class. It is happening in dynamic feature module

Any suggestions?

Before in Groovy worked

android {
   buildFeatures {
     dataBinding = true 
   }
}

Kotlin is not working either the same syntax or

buildFeatures.dataBinding = true

Attaching some screenshots.

The error is

Unresolved reference: dataBinding

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- Rainmaker
- July 14, 2021 at 4:44 pm
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After submitting a ticket to Google the answer is to use https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/193452960
```
android.dataBinding.isEnabled = true
```
Based on the dev reply marking it as deprecated is a bug and should not be thee case in kts.

From the ticket:

Sorry for the mixed messages about build features, we realized that it made more sense to put the enable flag for features next to the feature itself. The plan is that the supported path will be:android.dataBinding.isEnabled = true Which works today in kts, but is currently incorrectly marked as deprecated.