Difference between Dagger and ButterKnife Android

Question

Can anyone point out the difference between Dagger and Butterknife? I know that Butterknife is a view injection library and Dagger is a dependency injection library. But the

Answer 1

@JakeWharton's answers it partially in the comment:

TL;DR: They complement each other. Use Butterknife for injecting views, Dagger for the rest.

If you use Dagger to try and inject views you're going to have a very bad time :) Try to think of Butter Knife as a means of binding views rather than injection. I only called it injection because all the RoboGuice converts were complaining about lack of "view injection" with Dagger. It's not really injection at all. Like the answer mentions, it's just a way to reduce boilerplate. Under the hood it's just calling findViewById like you would!