Android Data Binding Library has been production ready for almost a year and you may be wondering if you can start using this great library in an existing project without introducing more bugs and without having to rewrite a lot of exiting code in your project. Yes you can, and its very easy to start! And why wouldn't you? Why wait to start a new project in few months or years and miss out on all the benefits of this library?! As the library offers significant time savings to developers and enforces good coding practices and as a result making your code cleaner and more maintainable. You can pull the the code for this tutorial here . It is easy to begin. If your project is minimum API level 7 or higher and is using Android Plugin for Gradle 1.5.0-alpha1 or higher then you can simply enable the Data Binding library by adding the following to the app module's build.gradle file android { .... dataBinding { enabled = true } } And that's it! Now you ...