Using GLSurfaceView class with android xml layouts

Question

I want to make use of the android xml layouts. I have put a glSurfaceView in a frame layout to use in conjunction with a linear layout like so...

Answer 1

Just reference your own class (with full packagename) in the xml, the same way you reference android.opengl.GLSurfaceView. Make sure that your subclass implements the proper constructor, and passes the context & attributes to the parent:

public MyGLSurfaceView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
{
   super(context, attrs);

Then you can fetch it using findViewById:

MySurfaceView glSurfaceView = 
             (MySurfaceView)findViewById(R.id.surfaceviewclass);

That should do the trick.