Android studio cant find my specific binding - kotlin

Question

Im trying to implement databinding into my app. For some reason, android studio finds a generic "viewdatabinding" instead of my ActivityMainBinding.
this is my mainactivity:
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
private lateinit var binding: ActivityMainBinding
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
binding = DataBindingUtil.setContentView<ActivityMainBinding>(this, R.layout.activity_main)
}
}
this is my activity_main.xml
<Layout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<fragment
android:id="#+id/navigationFragment"
android:name="androidx.navigation.fragment.NavHostFragment"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
app:navGraph="#navigation/navigation"
app:defaultNavHost="true"
/>
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
</Layout>
and this is my gradle build file
plugins {
id 'com.android.application'
id 'kotlin-android'
}
android {
compileSdkVersion 30
buildToolsVersion "30.0.2"
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.example.android.gintastic"
minSdkVersion 19
targetSdkVersion 30
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
dataBinding{
enabled = true
}
compileOptions {
sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
}
kotlinOptions {
jvmTarget = '1.8'
}
buildFeatures {
viewBinding true
}
}
dependencies {
implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version"
implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.3.1'
implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0'
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.2.1'
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.1'
implementation 'androidx.annotation:annotation:1.1.0'
implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-livedata-ktx:2.2.0'
implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx:2.2.0'
implementation 'androidx.legacy:legacy-support-v4:1.0.0'
implementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-fragment-ktx:2.3.0'
implementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-ui-ktx:2.3.0'
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.+'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.2'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.3.0'
}
the error im getting is the following:
Ive done this before for an other project and had no trouble doing so. Maybe its because its a different SDK version?

Answer 1

It is simple, you are not generating DataBinding class at all.
DataBinding xml should look like:
layout tag
-data tag
-other xml
close layout tag

Answer 2

The problem was i typed Layout instead of layout.
my bad