Inflate a view in a background thread

Question

I have a very simple question:

Is or is it not possible to inflate a view (not add it to layout) in a background thread (ex: in the doInBack

Answer 1

Is or is it not possible to inflate a view (not add it to layout) in a background thread (ex: in the doInBackground of an AsyncTask)?

Possible, yes. Recommended? No. As mentioned in the documentation:

Thus, there are simply two rules to Android's single thread model:

1. Do not block the UI thread
2. Do not access the Android UI toolkit from outside the UI thread

via: Processes and Threads

Update [02/06/19]:

Apparently, the support library has a tool to do this: AsyncLayoutInflater (Jetpack version). It was introduced in version 24, around 2016 (2 years after my answer)

But, as mentioned on other answers, be careful with this tool as it can very easily backfire.