Does Android support layout inheritance (similar to Django templates)?

Question

I may be misunderstanding how and work, but according to Simple example of and usage in And

Answer 1

I've solved this by adding ViewStub entries into the layout xml of the parent, and - depending on the type of subclass - inflating the correct stub.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewStub.html

ViewStub is sort of lazy loading a view, so if you never call inflate() on it or never make it visible it won't be added to the layout hierarchy.