Inflater inflate but height is small ( looks like wrap_content and need fill_parent)

Question

I have layout and I want to inflate that

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >       
    </EditText>

</LinearLayout>

like

    LinearLayout ll=(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.llContainer);
    View view; 
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); 
    view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.question_free_text, null);
    ll.addView(view);

where ll is

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/llContainer"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
>
</LinearLayout>

in other xml, but problem is when it inflate it shows but height is big (fill_parent, it looks like wrap_content, but there is no wrap_content in layout). Can anybody help me ?

Answer 1

As Yashwanth Kumar correctly mentioned in the comments, the second parameter of the inflate-method should be the root view in which the new view will be inserted:

LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.llContainer);
View view;
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); 
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.question_free_text, ll);

If a root view is provided in the inflate-call, the LayoutInflator calls the generateLayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams p) method of this root view to get some LayoutParams (basically containing information about how big a view can/should be) which will be passed to the new view.

Note that if you provide a root view, the inflated view will be automatically added to the root view via root.addView(View child, LayoutParams params).

You can also pass a third parameter to the inflate-method (boolean attachToRoot), if this value is false, the new view will not be added automatically to the root view, but the LayoutParams are still set with setLayoutParams(params). You can use this if you wand to add you view manually to the root view (e.g. at a specific position/index):

LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.llContainer);
View view;
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); 
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.question_free_text, ll, false); // the LayoutParams of view are set here
ll.addView(view, 2);