Bind views automatically by name

Writing boilerplate code always bothers me. One of these things in Android is binding views:

TextView email;
TextView password;
//...

private bindViews() {
    email = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.email);
    password = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.password);
    //...
}

Which I think could be made better.

Recently I found out about ButterKnife library and I loved it. It makes code less:

@BindView(R.id.email) TextView email;
@BindView(R.id.password) TextView password;
//...

ButterKnife.bind(this);

But the thing is that we usually name our views match their ids. For example both xml id and java field name is password. (And also convert snake-casing to camel-casing). So I was thinking that theoretically the id part could also be removed and the code be shortened to something like this:

@BindView TextView email;
@BindView TextView password;
//...

bind(this);

Is there such solution? If there isn't, would it be useful and viable? Because I'd like to create it, if there's not.

Solution

To my knowledge there isn't anything like that. But ButterKnife is actively worked on and has a pretty big following. I personally wouldn't switch away from that just to make my code slightly less verbose.

It'd still be a pretty cool exercise to do I think. Could fork ButterKnife and try to get that feature merged in. It'd be a pretty big achievement to contribute to one of Jake Wharton's libraries.

For what this is worth, you might like LoganSquare. It's a JSON Parser that does basically the same thing you're describing with Annotations. It's also very fast. Here's an example of using it:

@JsonObject
public class User{
    // Will infer JSON key based off variable's name
    @JsonField
    public String name;

    // Can specify a key's name too if you want like this 
    @JsonField(name="date_of_birth")
    public long dateOfBirth;

    // LoganSquare requires a default constructor like this
    public User(){}
}