How to Programmatically Add Views to Views

Question

Let\'s say I have a LinearLayout, and I want to add a View to it, in my program from the Java code. What method is used for this? I\'m not asking how it\'s done

Answer 1

for anyone yet interested:

the best way I found is to use the inflate static method of View.

View inflatedView = View.inflate(context, yourViewXML, yourLinearLayout);

where yourViewXML is something like R.layout.myView

please notice that you need a ViewGroup in order to add a view (which is any layout you can think of)

so as an example lets say you have a fragment which it view already been inflated and you know that the root view is a layout, and you want to add a view to it:

    View view = getView(); // returns base view of the fragment
    if (view == null)
        return;
    if (!(view instanceof ViewGroup))
        return;

    ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) view;
    View popup = View.inflate(viewGroup.getContext(), R.layout.someView, viewGroup);