What's the quickest way to add several views to a LinearLayout?

Question

I have a LinearLayout view that already contains several elements. I want to add a lot more Views to it, programmatically. And because this is inside a Scroll

Answer 1

A ListView is the way to go.

You say that your layout is too complex. But it is completely okay to inflate a complex layout as a child. For example a layout that has text and then an icon:

Could be inflated in your adapter as so:

@Override
public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    LinearLayout root = null;
    ImageView editImageView;

    if (convertView == null) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        root = (LinearLayout)inflater.inflate(R.layout.item, null);
    } else {
        root = (LinearLayout)convertView;
    }
}

You can also be a little more clever in order to support a header. Just add a check if the index is the root and inflate a different view. Since the header is the only one that is different you will still take advantage of all the other rows being reusable. You can even pre-inflate and store the header and reuse it to completely get rid of inflation.