It would be nice if the library moved away from the plugin approach and instead used a simple compile-time dependency accompanied with the android apt plugin for implementing the annotation processing.

The plugin approach introduces all it's own compile time dependencies (which the user has no control over) e.g. the AspectJ runtime which by itself adds 923 to the user's method count in contrast to ButterKnife's 342 total of methods - which might deter some developers from using it.

The library should also be published as an aar if it isn't already so that proguard rules can be included automatically.

What do you think?