How to get the index of particular view OR ViewGroup which is added to the ViewGroup(layout)

Question

<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_margin="24dip"     android:text="Add Notes" /> <TableLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"     android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="24dip"     android:layout_marginRight="24dip" android:id="@+id/tlNotes"     android:stretchColumns="0"> </TableLayout>  <Button android:id="@+id/bAddNoteLine"     android:layout_marginLeft="24dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="ADD"> </Button>  <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/llIndex"     android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="fill_parent"     android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_margin="21dip"     android:gravity="center">     <Button android:id="@+id/bSaveSubjectiveNote"         android:layout_width="192dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:text="Save" />     <Button android:id="@+id/bDiscardSubjectiveNote"         android:layout_width="192dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_marginLeft="48dip" android:background="@drawable/button"         android:text="Discard" /> </LinearLayout> 

how to retrieve the index of linearLayout which has "llIndex" as id. Thanks

Answer 1

Very simple - call the indexOfChild function on the view's parent:

LinearLayout addNoteLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.llAddNote); int index = ((ViewGroup) addNoteLayout.getParent()).indexOfChild(addNoteLayout);