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Dynamically add a button to a view from a listview Adapter GetView method

As a little eperiment, I'm trying to do the following.
I have an AXML describing a vertical linear layout which contains a listview (only filling 200dp of the vertical linear layout ). The AXML is inflated when the activity starts with SetContentView. Then the listview is correctly populated with values using its Adapter.
In the GetView method of the listview Adapter, I am trying to also dynamically create a button and add it to the linear layout, but for some reason the button is not added.
If I try to add the button in the constructor method of the Adapter instead, it is correctly added.
Can you tell me what could be possibly going wrong?
Let me add some code:
class TracksAdapter : BaseAdapter<string> {
Activity context;
List<Dictionary<string,string>> trackList;
// constructor
public TracksAdapter (Activity context, List<Dictionary<string,string>> trackList) {
this.context = context;
this.trackList = trackList;
// Just as a little test, if I create the button from here it will be correctly added to linear layout:
var ll = context.FindViewById<LinearLayout>(Resource.Id.linLayForResultsActivity);
Button b1 = new Button(context);
b1.Text = "Btn";
ll.AddView(b1);
}
public override View GetView(int position, View oldView, ViewGroup parent) {
// if I create the button from here it will not be added to the layout
var ll = context.FindViewById<LinearLayout>(Resource.Id.linLayForResultsActivity);
Button b1 = new Button(context);
b1.Text = "Btn";
ll.AddView(b1);
// this other code is working
View view = context.LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.ResultItem, null);
var artistLabel = view.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.resultArtistNameTextView);
artistLabel.Text = trackList[position]["trackArtistName"];
return view;
}
}
Update: adding some more context information because I know this can be a bit weird to understand without it:
In GetView, I don't need to return the new button I am trying to create there. GetView only need to return a listview view item, but, along its execution, GetView also has to create and add a button to the linear layout containing the listview.
The real code is much more complex than that. I have simplified it in the question. In the real code, the listview items are made of text and a button. The GetView also attaches event handlers to the buttons. Then what I need is, when a user clicks a button in any of the listview items, another button is added below the listview. So I need the code for adding another button to be in GetView, and the button needs to be added outside of the listview, ie. to the linear layout containing the listview.

Use the LayoutInflator to create a view based on your layout template, and then inject it into the view where you need it.
LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View v = vi.inflate(R.layout.your_layout, null);
// fill in any details dynamically here
TextView textView = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.a_text_view);
textView.setText("your text");
// insert into main view
ViewGroup insertPoint = (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.insert_point);
insertPoint.addView(v, 0, new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));

I looked in you code, you are returning view, while you add the button to ll, you should return ll
what you return in getView() is what you see in the list item layout, since you're adding the button to ll and returning view, the button won't appear.
you can add the button to view as you implementation
Also check this:
Try using boolean addViewInLayout (View child, int index, ViewGroup.LayoutParams params)
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGroup.html#addViewInLayout(android.view.View, int, android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams)

It's working... Without making any changes now it's working as it should... ! Ugh!
I really don't know what I was doing wrong here... probably it was because of some sort of caching of older version of the installed APK.. ? I know this sort of stuff can happen, and that's why I've always been uninstalling the app before deplyoing the new version to the device... but still...!

Android multiple layout inflater, i can work only in the first

i have several layout inflater in my code, which is necessary:
for (String valori : timers_valori){
LayoutInflater inflater=(LayoutInflater)getSystemService(context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View menuLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.elemento_statistica, contenitore_statistiche, true);
TextView nome=(TextView)menuLayout.findViewById(R.id.timer_testo_1);
nome.setText(x+"");
menuLayout.invalidate();
x=x+1;
}
(the code is trimmed)
it works, but it continue to edit the first layout, for example:
OUTPUT
ciao
...
...
INSTEAD I NEED
hello
hola
ciao
any idea? i think it's not linkin correctly the textview.
thanks!

It seems that you need to iterate the id R.id.timer_testo_1 on each loop, as it is overriding the content of same TextView. Another tip is to get LayoutInflater outside of the for.

I think you should add each view that generates the main view,
Example:
addView (nome);
You should do this in every cycle of the loop.
Your code would look like: :
for (String valori : timers_valori){
LayoutInflater inflater=(LayoutInflater)getSystemService(context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View menuLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.elemento_statistica, contenitore_statistiche, true);
TextView nome=(TextView)menuLayout.findViewById(R.id.timer_testo_1);
nome.setText(x+"");
menuLayout.invalidate();
x=x+1;
addView(nome);
}

Solved by simply adding
nome.setId(x);
right after TextView declaration.

Unable to set data from a Dialog on a TextView

I read data from a Dialog but I'm unable to set that data on a TextView.
What am I doing wrong?

// We can't imagine what you are doing wrong, without seeing your source code.
TextView facePalm = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.youtextview);
facePalm.setText("Like Octavian Damiean said you should improve your question.");

When you customize a dialog, you should do it like this:
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(this);
final View layoutview = inflater.inflate(R.layout.rootview, null);
final TextView title=(TextView) layoutview.findViewById(R.id.text);

Android: findviewbyid: finding view by id when view is not on the same layout invoked by setContentView

I have an activity MyActivity that extends from MapActivity. In the .xml file containing the layout I can only include the MapView
<com.google.android.maps.MapView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/trail_map_view"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:clickable="true"
android:apiKey="key"
/>
However I do need to find another view that is located in another .xml file.
Unfortunately, findViewById returns null.
How can I get the view I am looking for?
Thanks a lot!

Thanks for commenting, I understand what you mean but I didn't want to check old values. I just wanted to get a pointer to that view.
Looking at someone else's code I have just found a workaround, you can access the root of a layout using LayoutInflater.
The code is the following, where this is an Activity:
final LayoutInflater factory = getLayoutInflater();
final View textEntryView = factory.inflate(R.layout.landmark_new_dialog, null);
landmarkEditNameView = (EditText) textEntryView.findViewById(R.id.landmark_name_dialog_edit);
You need to get the inflater for this context, access the root view through the inflate method and finally call findViewById on the root view of the layout.
Hope this is useful for someone! Bye

I have changed in my activity but effected.
Here is my code:
View layout = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.list_group,null);
try {
LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout) layout.findViewById(R.id.ldrawernav);
linearLayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ffffff"));
}
catch (Exception e) {
}
}

try:
Activity parentActivity = this.getParent();
if (parentActivity != null)
{
View landmarkEditNameView = (EditText) parentActivity.findViewById(R.id. landmark_name_dialog_edit);
}

Another way to do this is:
// inflate the layout
View myLayout = LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.MY_LAYOUT,null);
// load the text view
TextView myView = (TextView) myLayout.findViewById(R.id.MY_VIEW);

It's impossible. You can only find and access views that are currently running. If you want to check the value of ex. TextView used in previus activity you must save the value is SharedPreferences, database, file or pass by Intent.

I used
View.inflate(getContext(), R.layout.whatever, null)
The using of View.inflate prevents the warning of using null at getLayoutInflater().inflate().

In main Activity just create Static Variable Like below.
//Create Static variable
public static View mainView;
LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_home, null);
mainView = view;
//Now just need to Call MainActivity.mainView to Access your home view or Something else.

How to inflate one view with a layout

I have a layout defined in XML. It contains also:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/item"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
I would like to inflate this RelativeView with other XML layout file. I may use different layouts depending on a situation. How should I do it? I was trying different variations of
RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.item);
item.inflate(...)
But none of them worked fine.

I'm not sure I have followed your question- are you trying to attach a child view to the RelativeLayout? If so you want to do something along the lines of:
RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.item);
View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.child, null);
item.addView(child);

You inflate an XML resource. See the LayoutInflater doc .
If your layout is in a mylayout.xml, you would do something like:
View view;
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.mylayout, null);
RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.item);

Though late answer,
but would like to add that one way to get this
LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater)this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View view = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.mylayout, item );
where item is the parent layout where you want to add a child layout.

It's helpful to add to this, even though it's an old post, that if the child view that is being inflated from xml is to be added to a viewgroup layout, you need to call inflate with a clue of what type of viewgroup it is going to be added to. Like:
View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.child, item, false);
The inflate method is quite overloaded and describes this part of the usage in the docs. I had a problem where a single view inflated from xml wasn't aligning in the parent properly until I made this type of change.

Even simpler way is to use
View child = View.inflate(context, R.layout.child, null)
item.addChild(child) //attach to your item

Try this code :
If you just want to inflate your layout :
View view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.your_xml_layout,null); // Code for inflating xml layout
RelativeLayout item = view.findViewById(R.id.item);
If you want to inflate your layout in container(parent layout) :
LinearLayout parent = findViewById(R.id.container); //parent layout.
View view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.your_xml_layout,parent,false);
RelativeLayout item = view.findViewById(R.id.item); //initialize layout & By this you can also perform any event.
parent.addView(view); //adding your inflated layout in parent layout.

layout inflation
View view = null;
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.mylayout, null);
main.addView(view);

If you're not in an activity you can use the static from() method from the LayoutInflater class to get a LayoutInflater, or request the service from the context method getSystemService() too :
LayoutInflater i;
Context x; //Assuming here that x is a valid context, not null
i = (LayoutInflater) x.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
//OR
i = LayoutInflater.from(x);
(I know it's almost 4 years ago but still worth mentioning)

AttachToRoot Set to True
Just think we specified a button in an XML layout file with its layout width and layout height set to match_parent.
<Button xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/custom_button">
</Button>
On This Buttons Click Event We Can Set Following Code to Inflate Layout on This Activity.
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(getContext());
inflater.inflate(R.layout.yourlayoutname, this);
Hope this solution works for you.!

If you want to add a single view multiple time then you have to use
layoutInflaterForButton = getActivity().getLayoutInflater();
for (int noOfButton = 0; noOfButton < 5; noOfButton++) {
FrameLayout btnView = (FrameLayout) layoutInflaterForButton.inflate(R.layout.poll_button, null);
btnContainer.addView(btnView);
}
If you do like
layoutInflaterForButton = getActivity().getLayoutInflater();
FrameLayout btnView = (FrameLayout) layoutInflaterForButton.inflate(R.layout.poll_button, null);
and
for (int noOfButton = 0; noOfButton < 5; noOfButton++) {
btnContainer.addView(btnView);
}
then it will throw exception of all ready added view.

If you are you trying to attach a child view to the RelativeLayout? you can do by following
RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.item);
View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.child, item, true);

I had the hardest time with this error, because of my unique circumstances, but finally found a solution.
My situation: I am using a separate view (XML) which holds a WebView, then opens in an AlertDialog when I click a button in my main activity view. But somehow or another the WebView belonged to the main activity view (probably because I pull the resource from here), so right before I assigned it to my AlertDialog (as a view), I had to get the parent of my WebView, put it into a ViewGroup, then remove all the views on that ViewGroup. This worked, and my error went away.
// set up Alert Dialog box
AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
// inflate other xml where WebView is
LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater)this.getSystemService
(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View v = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.your_webview_layout, null);
final WebView webView = (WebView) v.findViewById(R.id.your_webview_id);
// more code...
.... later on after I loaded my WebView ....
// first, remove the parent of WebView from it's old parent so can be assigned a new one.
ViewGroup vg = (ViewGroup) webView.getParent();
vg.removeAllViews();
// put WebView in Dialog box
alert.setView(webView);
alert.show();

With Kotlin, you can use:
val content = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.[custom_layout_name], null)
[your_main_layout].apply {
//..
addView(content)
}

When add a layout to an Activity in Kotlin, see these steps:
Add just in Activity - One layout as a parent
Xml file of new
Layout Give the value of R.
val parent: LinearLayout =findViewById(R.id.stars)
val view =
LayoutInflater.from(applicationContext).inflate(R.layout.another, parent,false)
Where parent is not necessary, can be null But warning message will be appear
view.findViewById<ImageView>(R.id.ivTimer).setImageResource(R.drawable.t2)
Any view must be set value in this way, finally add
parent.apply { addView(view)}

I had used below snippet of code for this and it worked for me.
LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.item);
View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.child, null);
linearLayout.addView(child);