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How to handle dynamically inflated layout content (Same Layout inflated multiple times)

I have a Linear layout and inside which there are few dropdown and text views,now i want to inflate the layout each time on click of "add more" button, below is the code for inflating the layout. the problem i am facing is to assign the id to each inflated layout content .Inorder to handle the content the inlfated layout i need the unique id for each content for each time i am inflating the layout.
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View row_view;
row_view = (View)inflater.inflate(R.layout.inflatefloor,null);
inflatefloordetails.addView(row_view);
here inflatefloor is the layout to inflate and inflatefloordetails is the main root layout inside which layout is to be inflated and i am inflating the inflatefloor layout each time on button click.
New to android pardon if anyone finds the question silly.
Note:Check out link below if anyone is facing similar problem, I found this link useful.
How to set Id of dynamic created layout?

I think it will be helpful.
you can put any object when set the tag to be unique:
yourView.setTag(Object object);
and to retrive it:
object.indexOf(yourView.getTag())
Otherwise you have to use custom view.

How to add blocks of linearLayouts and is there a better way?

This is the main idea of what I am trying to do.
I would like to ask you what is the best way to make such a design. the problem is that these gray/black blocks might not show up (user will choose which should show up). So I would like to find out do I need to make these 3 text views inside linearLayout programatically? Is there anyway to create some sort of template which I would only have to edit by setting new texts for textViews and add them to some sort of layout?

Another option is to just have a LinearLayout and an xml for the row entry. Then you can do:
LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) this.findViewById(R.id.your_layout_id);
List<Blocks> userBlocks = getMyUserBlocks();
for(Block b : userBlocks) {
View blockView = LayoutInflater.from(getBaseContext())
.inflate(R.layout.your_row_layout, layout, false);
TextView someData = (TextView) blockView.findViewById(R.id.your_text_view_id);
someData.setText(b.someAttribute.toString());
layout.addView(blockView);
}
You will need a separate xml layout for the block row.

You can use a ListView with large dividers. Your dark gray blocks are the row views, and you can just append them to a dataset and update the adapter for the ListView. For the dividers, see setDivider() and setDividerHeight().

Adding tags and listeners to the views of a multiple times inflated XML

I am actually developing an android application which needs to inflates many times the same XML layout.
This layout contains 2 buttons, some textViews and a progressBar which I'll need to update later. I would like to add onClick listeners to the buttons and to set custom tags with setTag() to all of these elements, so I will be able to know which button has been clicked and to modify the right textView (or progressBar).
I inflate the XML with this code :
LinearLayout countersList = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.countersLayout);
View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.counter, null);
countersList.addView(child);
How can I access to the right view to set the tag and to add listeners? Is there a better way to do what I want to do ?
Thank you very much !

As far as how to tag or add onClick listeners to your views: You can add an ID to the views you want to tag and find them using findViewById. For example,
LinearLayout countersList = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.countersLayout);
ViewGroup child = (ViewGroup) getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.counter, null);
child.findViewById(R.id.myButton).setTag("myTagForTheButton");
countersList.addView(child);
On the second question, I'm not sure what your UI looks like, but many repeated views might call for using a ListView.

There is no problem of setting tags and listener
LinearLayout countersList = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.countersLayout);
View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.counter, null);
child.setTag("YourString");
// Similarly
view.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
{
#Override
public void onClick(View v)
{
}
});
countersList.addView(child);
If you want it for some of its child you can also do it using findViewById

you can user view.setTag(key, tag) to many tags.
ex:
view.setTag("right_view", rightView);

set LayOut Dynamically

i want to add Layout Dynamically on Add button click and on Dynamic Layout show Datepicker,Timepicker Dialog and set value in given Edit Text. show in image on Date Click set Date Right side . Here problem Start when Add Second Same layout and set date it set only on newly created layout

For example you need to create xml layout file with ScrollView and LinearView inside.
Then in your Activity class:
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View main = inflater.inflate(R.layout.your_layout, null);
setContentView(main);
LinearLayout linear = (LinearLayout)main.findViewById(R.id.linear_layout);
and then in onClick method just:
View yourView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.yourView, null);
// Do whatever you want with your View, set up some variables etc.
and to add your view to main view:
linear.addView(yourView);
I know that this is not a direct answer to your question, but maybe will help you with dynamically adding Views.

Dynamically add UI content in android

I have an android app which asks a question followed by x number of options.
Each option contains a textview, ImageView and a radio button.
The value of x (i.e. the number of options) is not constant. I want to dynamically add UI content to satisfy this requirement.
At the moment I have written the code in the layout's xml to display a maximum of 4 options. If number of options is 2 I hide the options 3 and 4 using something like
tvoption1.setVisibility(View.GONE);
tvoption2.setVisibility(View.GONE);
However this is not very scalable. Can anyone tell me how to add options for java dynamically. Or is there a better approach?

A View can be added at runtime by using the inflater like this:
LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout)inflater.inflate(R.layout.news_categories_item, null);
TextView categoryValueTextView = (TextView)linearLayout.findViewById(R.id.news_category_item_value);
mMainLinearLayout.addView(categoryValueTextView);
In this example, a LinearLayout containing a TextView is inflated. A reference to the constituent TextView is then obtained, and the TextView is dynamically added (at runtime) to the main linear layout (mMainLinearLayout).
The inflater object may be obtained in an Activity by using getLayoutInflater().

create your row layout separately, from the main xml
Get LayoutInflater service from context:
LayoutInflater inflater=(LayoutInflater)getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATE_SERVICE);
use following method to addview to main xml, I assume you have parent layout llParent in xml and you want to add items in this llPaent, from list list.
for(int i=0;i<list.size();i++)
{
LinearLayout llView=(LinearLayout)inflater.inflate(R.layout.row);
//get view id and set values
TextView txt=(TextView)llView.findViewById(R.id.text);
}

A ListView is a good view for displaying several similar items. Here is a tutorial (Other views with adapters are good too, such as GridView or Gallery).
You will probably want to create your own adapter for the list, so you can display all three views (checkbox, image and text) as one item, but there are lots of examples on that available on the net as well as here on SO.