Kotterknife vs Anko

Kotterknife

By JakeWharton

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Kotterknife		Anko
	Project
-	Mentions	2
2,263	Stars	15,867
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 4 years ago	Latest Commit	over 4 years ago
Kotlin	Language	Kotlin
-	License	-

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Kotterknife

Posts with mentions or reviews of Kotterknife. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Anko

Posts with mentions or reviews of Anko. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-19.

Dear developers, would continue learning XML or start learning Jetpack Compose be more convenient?
1 project | /r/androiddev | 21 Nov 2021

Yes you can. Sadly I can't share any code on how to, but you can checkout Anko Layouts (although deprecated now and I never used it). I edited my post also, to show you how it looks like.
Pi Practice App in Compose
4 projects | dev.to | 19 Apr 2021

If you take a look at the repository, you'll find something rather interesting in its dependencies. It uses Anko Layouts to render some parts of its UI! This was an early, now deprecated and abandoned attempt by JetBrains to create declarative Android UI with Kotlin DSLs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Kotterknife and Anko you can also consider the following projects:

Kotlin Example - An example for who are all going to start learning Kotlin programming language to develop Android application.

Awesome Jetpack compose - A collaborative list of awesome jetpack compose resources.

Android Kotlin Samples - Some basic samples of Kotlin for Android

CalendarView - A highly customizable calendar view and compose library for Android.

KAndroid - Kotlin library for Android

Pdf Viewer For Android - A Lightweight PDF Viewer Android library which only occupies around 80kb while most of the Pdf viewer occupies up to 16MB space.

CodeView - Display code with syntax highlighting :sparkles: in native way.

RxKotlin/Pocket - This is a first kotlin project

Lassi - All in 1 picker library for android.

sliding-panel - Android sliding panel that is part of the view hierarchy, not above it.

Kotlin-AgendaCalendarView - Android calendar library provides easy to use widget with events