The Art of Doing: Dive Into Android Development with Kotlin - Why Use Bindings?

The video tutorial introduces the concept of binding in Android development, highlighting its advantages over the traditional findViewById method. It explains how binding can streamline access to XML views in Kotlin by using a single binding object, thus improving app performance. The tutorial also covers the steps to enable binding in Android Studio, discusses the differences between view binding and data binding, and suggests applying these concepts to existing apps for better understanding. The ultimate goal is to separate data processing from the activity using a view model.

Explain the difference between view binding and data binding.

Why is data binding considered to have a cost in terms of compile time?

What is the ultimate goal of using bindings in Android development as mentioned in the text?