Why can't Butterknife find a ViewHolder inside an anonymous class?

Question

I've got a ListView with an anonymous BaseAdapter:

final ListView myList = (ListView) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.my_list);
myList.setAdapter(new BaseAdapter() {

Inside that anonymous class I have a view holder:

class ViewHolder {
    @InjectView(R.id.textField) TextView text;

    public ViewHolder(View view) {
        ButterKnife.inject(this, view);

        if (text == null) {
            text = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.textField);
        }
    }
}

Setting a breakpoint confirms: Butterknife always leaves the text field null, but directly calling findViewById works fine. If I move the ViewHolder class out of the anonymous class, making it a member of my main class, Butterknife works fine. Can someone explain why?

Sanmicheli

Try to declare ViewHolder as: static class ViewHolder – Cake

my hunch is that since it's an anonymous class, ButterKnife doesn't know how to name the generated class, hence it skips it. – Jugendstil