I have created a Layout file for an activity. In this layout I have created a LinearLayout with a textview and an edittext.
Now I want to create additional LinearLayouts that will look and contain the exact same views that my original LinearLayout, but with different texts. I also want to do it programmatically during run because the amount of these LinearLayout will vary between runs.
I've read some about inflaters but I don't understand them enough to use them.
I'm thinking something like this, obviously the code is wrong, but hopefully you understand what I want to do:
LinearLayout llMain = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.mainLayout);
LinearLayout llToCopy = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.linearLayoutToCopy);
for(int player = 0; player < size; player++)
{
LinearLayout llCopy = llToCopy.clone();
TextView tv = (TextView)llCopy.getChildAt(0);
tv.setText(players.get(player).getName());
llMain.addView(llCopy);
}
There are several ways to accomplish this.
A quick and easy approach is to inflate a new layout in every iteration of the loop:
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
LinearLayout parent = (LinearLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.main, null);
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
View child = inflater.inflate(R.layout.child, null);
TextView tv = (TextView) child.findViewById(R.id.text);
tv.setText("Child No. " + i);
parent.addView(child);
}
setContentView(parent);
Another (more elegant) solution is to create a separate class extending LinearLayout:
public class ChildView extends LinearLayout {
private TextView tv;
public ChildView(Context context) {
super(context);
View.inflate(context, R.layout.child, this);
tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
}
public void setText(String text) {
tv.setText(text);
}
}
Now you can create a ChildView
in every iteration of your loop and set the text via the setText(String text)
method:
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
ChildView child = new ChildView( this );
child.setText("Child No. " + i);
parent.addView(child);
}
You can achieve that by using layout inflater
get the layout inflatter by using this
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService
(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
LinearLayout newlayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.yourlayout, null);
// newlayout is the copy of your layout and you can use it and to get
// the textview and edittext do it like this
TextView text = (TextView) newlayout.findView(R.id.yourtextviewid);
text.setText("new text");
EditText et = (EditText) newlayout.findView(R.id.yourtextviewid);