Create views programmatically using XML on Android

Question

I want to create a UI layout in XML and have it inserted as a child into an existing view (It will be inserted multiple times).

For example, here is what the XML file will contain:

<RelativeLayout     android:id="@+id/relativeLayout1" >     <Button android:id="@+id/myButton"         android:text="@string/mystring" /> </RelativeLayout> 

Now I get the parent LinearLayout and now want to add that XML file as a child view, e.g:

LinearLayout linear = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.myLayout);  // need to create a view object from the xml file linear.addView(myXmlObject); 

Is it possible to convert an XML resource to a view type? If so, how would I do this?

Answer 1

I believe you want the LayoutInflater. Let's say your example XML is in a file custom_layout.xml:

LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context); RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.custom_layout, null, false);  LinearLayout linear = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.myLayout); linear.addView(layout);