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JakeWharton/kotterknife

View "injection" library for Android. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/JakeWharton/kotterknife · Kotlin · Apache-2.0 (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases archived

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4335
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 2547
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2205 stars · 188 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Kotter Knife is a Kotlin library for binding Android views to properties via delegated properties, inspired by ButterKnife. It is explicitly deprecated; the author recommends Android's built-in view binding instead.

Use cases

  • bind android views to kotlin properties
  • replace findViewById with delegated properties
  • bind views in fragments and viewholders
  • optional view binding in kotlin
  • bind a list of views in android

When to choose

  • maintaining a legacy Android codebase that already uses Kotter Knife
  • studying how Kotlin delegated properties can wrap view lookups

When to avoid

  • starting any new Android project
  • you want view binding - use Android's official view binding
  • you care about memory allocations, since it allocates an object per view reference

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

ui-components developer-tools mobile-development android-tools developer-tools jvm view-binding kotlin-delegates deprecated butter-knife android

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