error: package android.view does not exist on enabling view binding android

Question

Current Android Studio Version: 4.1.3

buildFeatures {
        viewBinding true
    }

After enabling view binding in build.gradle I am getting the following error:

error: package android.view does not exist
import android.view.LayoutInflater;

in generated class FragmentFeedBinding

Answer 1

Ideally you don't need to change anything in generated files at all. try to clean and rebuild and see if that fixes your problem. Many times its android studio

Answer 2

I can work around this by forcing Android Studio to use java8 through JAVA_HOME.

Not great.