When people first hear about Anvil they don’t trust it because at first glance Anvil seems to be just a replacement for XML layouts. It’s not. It’s a library to build predictable reactive views. There are many known disadvantages of XMLs (poor code reuse, no type-safety, no variables, very limited styling support etc etc). Yet the developers are so much used to XMLs that they started liking them! Let’s see how one can use Anvil in all its power and still have XMLs in their projects.
