How to inflate one view with a layout

Question

I have a layout defined in XML. It contains also:

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/item"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>

I would like to inflate this RelativeView with other XML layout file. I may use different layouts depending on a situation. How should I do it? I was trying different variations of

RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.item);
item.inflate(...)

But none of them worked fine.

Answer 1

AttachToRoot Set to True

Just think we specified a button in an XML layout file with its layout width and layout height set to match_parent.

<Button xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="@+id/custom_button">
</Button>

On This Buttons Click Event We Can Set Following Code to Inflate Layout on This Activity.

LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(getContext());
inflater.inflate(R.layout.yourlayoutname, this);

Hope this solution works for you.!

Answer 2

I'm not sure I have followed your question- are you trying to attach a child view to the RelativeLayout? If so you want to do something along the lines of:

RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.item);
View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.child, null);
item.addView(child);

Answer 3

If you want to add a single view multiple time then you have to use

   layoutInflaterForButton = getActivity().getLayoutInflater();

 for (int noOfButton = 0; noOfButton < 5; noOfButton++) {
        FrameLayout btnView = (FrameLayout) layoutInflaterForButton.inflate(R.layout.poll_button, null);
        btnContainer.addView(btnView);
    }

If you do like

   layoutInflaterForButton = getActivity().getLayoutInflater();
    FrameLayout btnView = (FrameLayout) layoutInflaterForButton.inflate(R.layout.poll_button, null);

and

for (int noOfButton = 0; noOfButton < 5; noOfButton++) {
            btnContainer.addView(btnView);
        }

then it will throw exception of all ready added view.

Answer 4

If you're not in an activity you can use the static from() method from the LayoutInflater class to get a LayoutInflater, or request the service from the context method getSystemService() too :

LayoutInflater i;
Context x;       //Assuming here that x is a valid context, not null

i = (LayoutInflater) x.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
//OR
i = LayoutInflater.from(x);

(I know it's almost 4 years ago but still worth mentioning)

Answer 5

If you are you trying to attach a child view to the RelativeLayout? you can do by following

RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.item);
View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.child, item, true);

Answer 6

layout inflation

View view = null;
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); 
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.mylayout, null);
main.addView(view);