Inflator in Android Application Development

Question

Can anybody please tell What Inflator is and how it is being used in an Android application?

I don\'t know the exact use of it and Why it is being used.

Answer 1

Not quite sure what you mean, but if its related with inflating views, its used to load layout xml files into your application. e.g by

View myWelcome = View.inflate(this, R.layout.welcome, null);

Its easier and consider best practice to have you view definition inside layout xml files, instead of creating your views fully by code.