Android: LayoutInflater and findViewById woes

Question

I'm trying to use LayoutInflater in a loop, but each time one of these guys is instantiated, I need to modify at least 2 TextViews found within each instantiation. What i currently have at the moment instantates appropriately and adds the inflated xml view just like I want it to, but the result is that only the first instatiaton's resources are getting modified, and therefore it just gets overwritten many times.

            LayoutInflater inflater;
            TextView eTitle;

            for(String[] episode : episodes) {

                //Log.d("Episodes", episode[0] + " / " + episode[2]);
                inflater = (LayoutInflater) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
                inflater.inflate(R.layout.episode_list_item, listView);
                eTitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.episode_list_item_title);

                eTitle.setText(episode[2]);
            }

Example output of my list:

• 04 - Episode 04
• Episode Title
• Episode Title
• Episode Title

where its supposed to look like this:

• 01 - Episode 01
• 02 - Episode 02
• 03 - Episode 03
• 04 - Episode 04

what do i need to do to ensure that im getting the corresponding unique textview id's from my inflated layouts?

Answer 1

Why don't you use ListView instead?

 LayoutInflater inflater = inflater = (LayoutInflater) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

for(String[] episode : episodes) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.episode_list_item, null);
    mTitle = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.episode_list_item_title);
    mTitle.setText(episode[2]);

listView.addView(view);

}

Answer 2

I am assuming you have a few TextViews in your LinearLayout. One point is they can't have the same ids. So suppose you have 4 TextView , then give each different ids, say tv1, tv2 etc.

Now in your onCreate method, initialize all these textViews as:

myTextView1= (TextView)findViewByid(R.id.tv1);

etc etc...

In the function where you get the "episodes" try this:

`myTextView1.setText(episodes[0]);

myTextView2.setText(episodes[1]);

You don't have to use any inflater because its already there in the activities layout file, which is automatically done in onCreate.