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How to implement custom button with three text views in Android?

I want to add three textViews in a single button.
I can do it using linearLayout as an XML file and then inflating it to my custom button class but somehow when I set click listener on this type of custom button it won't work.
I desire for a much better option, maybe extending the Android button class and then change it according to my requirement, but unable to inflate my button to my desired views.
Please assist me on how to do this.

Creating LinearLayout and setting style="#android:style/Widget.Button"
Did the trick for me.

You can design your layout with the three textviews as usual. For emulating click, set a StateListDrawable as the background of the root container. Put this in any layout (or use <include>) and attach a clickListener as usual.

You can simply use LinearLayout with 3 textview as its child and set click listener on it. No need to create custom button class. But I do not know exact requirement so need more details for creating custom button class.

How to remove a custom view and rearrange linear layour

First of all I will explain my scenario.
I have an activity with a linear layout and I am inflating that linear layout with custom views. In the custom view I have a remove button to remove the particular child.
I know to remove the view I have to add an onClick Listener to the button in the custom view. But what I am not sure about is that how can I remove the view from its parent view from that onClick Listener.
I am populating the linear layout from items stored in shared preferences. So I thought first to update the shared preference by removing the string of the particular custom view I am clicking. But I don't know how I cn manage to re-populate the linear layout, since the function is in the parent activity.
I am a complete newbie in android. Thanks in advance
update
I'll make the scenario a little more simple.
I have a custom view with two imagebuttons - update & remove.
If i click in the remove button, then the custom view should be removed from the linearlayout.
And if I click in the update imagebutton, a function of the Activity which hosts the Linearlayout should be called with the text in the customview as a parameter.
How can i do this. I tried many ways, but failed :-(

I found the answer finally :
For the first requirement, ie., to remove the view, I used:
LinearLayout parentLyt = (LinearLayout) RecentSearch.this.getParent();
parentLyt.removeView(RecentSearch.this);
Thanks Very much to Piyush Gupta (#piyush)
For the second option, to access the hosting activity, I used getContext() and casted it to my activity class, then called the method.
Thanks every one who replied.

Using a layout inside a layout?

Which is the best way to change the content inside a layout by pressing buttons?
I want 6 buttons and different content for each push.
I cannot use tab layout because i already used it so..

I would suggest using the gridview that is set up in API Demos. You can import it in as a new project from the Android SDK.
It works effectively like the list of 'All Apps'. However you can change the way it lays out the buttons/icons/text.

In an app I'm working on, I have a list of message types as buttons. Clicking a button changes the display to a layout for composing the selected message. To do this, I have a FrameLayout for the area I want to change. I reference this view as 'compose_content'. When I want to change the content, I run the following code:
compose_content.removeAllViews();
LayoutInflater.from(activity).inflate(R.layout.new_content,compose_content, true);
This will change the FrameLayout content to the content from the specified layout.

One solution can be to have all the 6 views inside your inflated xml and depending on the button pressed set the visibility of that particular view visible and the rest gone

Nested text view in android,with dynamic content

I want to display a recursive or nested text view at depth of 3 in Android.The text to be displayed is, dynamic coming from web service.
for example:
If I Click on Help(Level 1)
it'll show topics under Help
If I Click on Help_Topic_1(Level 2)
it'll show questions under Help_Topic_1
If I click on this question, say HT_Question_1(Level 3)
it'll show Answer of that question(Level 3)
how to accomplish with this? please guide me.

You should use ExpandableListView. Reference http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ExpandableListView.html
You can call expandGroup and collapseGroup methods for expanding and collapsing on clicks.

the simplest way to do this is to have a nested layout structure. Your root view will contain the button to show level 1 and a child layout and initially be visible. The children's layout visibility will initially be set to "GONE". In the onclick listener for each button you change the visibility of the layout below it to view to "VISIBLE".
This of course is a very simple way of doing it. If you require to have open and close animations you'll need to use a more complex method.

Creating autohide custom view in android

I am working on creating a custom view in android. I want to create an autohide custom view control.
This control will be holding other UI elements mostly buttons or icons. It has a small button which is mandatory, clicking which will slide the control in or out thus changing its visibility.
one should be able to add other buttons or icons to this control
The control can be placed only at the borders, which needs to be specified while creating the view.
I don't know how to start with it
Should I be extending the View class or ViewGroup class.

have a look at this
and then you have to add a dynamic layout to this drawer

I used a RelativeLayout and added a Button to the View.
When I call expandView() or collapseView(), I call mybutton.setVisibility() and let RelativeLayout know it has changed with this.requestLayout().