Android Studio fails to generate databinding after 3.1.0 update

Question

This morning I made an update to android studio from 3.0.1 to 3.1.0. After updating the gradle to latest version I still get build error regarding

Answer 1

You need to change three things when you update from Android Studio 3.0.1 to 3.1.0. This is as listed below

1) You need to change in gradle.wrapper-properties in distributionUrl. Your URL must be distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip

To

2) Need to update data binding dependancy in app level gradle file from kapt 'com.android.databinding:compiler:3.0.1' to kapt 'com.android.databinding:compiler:3.1.0'

And if you are develop using kotlin then,

3) Third and last thing is need to update kotlin gradle plug in classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.2.30" to classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.2.31" in project level gradle dependancy. Also you can update build gradle version as seen in below image.

after all above step just clean build and rebuild project. Hope it will work to solve your problem.

Thanks!! Happy coding!!