Butterknife: null on BindView

[yshinkarev]

Hi.
I'm use Android Studio 3 (Canary 4). Language: Java.
I have in build.gradle (project):

buildscript {
ext.butterKnife = "8.4.0"
}

There is build.gradle (app module):

dependencies {
compile "com.jakewharton:butterknife:$butterKnife"
annotationProcessor "com.jakewharton:butterknife-compiler:$butterKnife"
}

My activity:

public class LeadPlaceActivity extends BaseActivityJ implements LeadPlaceView {
@BindView(R.id.next) View next;

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        setTheme(R.style.AppThemeActionBar);
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); // here called setContentView
        ButterKnife.setDebug(true);
        ButterKnife.bind(this);
}

So, my "next" button is null all time.
Logcat:

D/ButterKnife: Looking up binding for com.carfix.android.ui.activity.LeadPlaceActivity
D/ButterKnife: Not found. Trying superclass com.carfix.android.ui.common.BaseActivityJ
D/ButterKnife: Not found. Trying superclass com.arellomobile.mvp.MvpAppCompatActivity
D/ButterKnife: Not found. Trying superclass android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity
D/ButterKnife: MISS: Reached framework class. Abandoning search.

BaseActivityJ - my abstract activity. You can see, that I'm use moxy library.

I try 8.5.0 and 8.6.0 versions too, no success.

[hzvtc]

You should invoke the method of setContentView in onCreate

[yshinkarev]

Of couse, I call setContentView. It called in my base activity: BaseActivityJ (it's abstract activity that have method int getContentViewId()).
Anyway, I moved @BindView to this parent activity (where setContentView called), "next" still null.

[JakeWharton]

Is the generated code for that activity visible in the build/generated/source/ folder?

[StephenGiant]

i guess the problem is kapt

[yshinkarev]

JakeWharton, please see simple project here (zip-archive).
You can see in file _LocationLogViewHolder.java_ comments lines.
If I back code to use BindView annotation, then view is null.
I test on Android Studio Canary 4 (gradle 4.0) and Canary 5 (gradle 4.1).

[yuxia761]

I also encountered similar problems, please help to solve

[DavidMont]

I also encounter this problem i was using 8.5.1 and now the latest 8.7.0 still I'm facing the same problem. Is there any limit that butterknife can accommodate?

[JakeWharton]

I cannot reproduce. Butter Knife correctly generates code and it winds up in the APK:

[DavidMont]

@JakeWharton is there any problem if I set my fragment as retained in setRetainInstance and then unbind them on onDestroy ?

[JakeWharton]

Not as long as you are re-binding in onCreateView and not touching the fields between.

[alex-berdnikov]

I'm having similar problem with 8.8.1. Butterknife just doesn't bind the elements.
Here's what Buterknife.debug() says:

D/ButterKnife: Looking up binding for com.myproj.features.homescreen.HomeActivity_
D/ButterKnife: Not found. Trying superclass android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity
D/ButterKnife: MISS: Reached framework class. Abandoning search.

[arkzb]

@alex-berdnikov
I had similar problem In my case I had to add line below because I was using Kotlin in few places in my project
kapt 'com.jakewharton:butterknife-compiler:8.7.0'

[alex-berdnikov]

Ok, the thing is that we use old gradle plugin in the project I encountered it, so I had to use apt instead of annotationProcessor. My fault.