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How to combine dynamic an ImageView with TextView

I'd like to fill dynamic ImageViews in a LinearLayout. In addition i like to include at the top of every ImageView a TextView. Implemeting this in a static way with the xml file is no problem but I don't got any idea how to implement this problem?
For example I select 5 pictures out of the gallery and show all pics side by side. At the top of every pic you can see the name of the pic.
[EDIT]
LayoutInflater inflatter=(LayoutInflater)this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
LinearLayout myLayout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.mylinlayout);
// AbsoluteLayoute has got an ImageView and a TextView
AbsoluteLayout test = (AbsoluteLayout)inflatter.inflate(R.layout.test2, null, false);
TextView texttest = (TextView)test.findViewById(R.id.name);
ImageView image=(ImageView)test.findViewById(R.id.image);
texttest.setText("test");
myLayout.addView(test);

Sounds like you're trying to make a scrollabe list, where each item in the list is a picture and a title text, right?
Have you thought about using an ArrayAdapter in a ListView and in the adapter's getView() you can inflate a layout file that contains an ImageView and a TextView?

You could create a custom layout in xml with the ImageView and TextView arranged the way you want for each item.
AbsoluteLayout
TextView (above ImageView)
ImageView
Then, as you dynamically get the images, you inflate this custom layout using a LayoutInflater and assign the TextView with the desired text and the ImageView with the desired image. Next, you take the inflated view and add it as a child to the LinearLayout. Iterate through your images and do this and you should have what the desired appearance.
Edit: If you have many images that might require scrolling, you would have to wrap the LinearLayout in a ScrollView to allow scrolling if the LinearLayout gets too large.
As someone else just mentioned, a ListView will take custom xml layouts and inflate them the same way using adapters and such, and it will handle scrolling for you. ListView link and example.

Android: Is there any way to to cast ImageView to RelativeLayout

I want to cast and ImageView to RelativeLayout. Because the RelativeLayout is the parent View and there are many images as Child views in this. So I have written code to download image and set it to the Image view. But the case here i want to set this downloaded image as background of the parent view that is of RelativeLayout.
RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.bg_image);
ImageView bgImage=(ImageView) findViewById(R.id.bground_image);
downloader = new ImageDownloader();
downloader.download(item.imageurl(), bgImage);
/// Image is now set in bgImage//
///////// Now here i want bgImage to be set as a background of layout////
thankx in advance

To set a background image you can use something like
layout.setBackground(new BitmapDrawable(<your image>));

Best way I think is take one another Imageview with same dimensions as Relativelayout(may be fill parent) with scaletype fitxy and set the image to this as you are doing lazy loding and cant pass that relativelayout to loader....... this fitxy will work as background of parent layout
Or another way is change your downloder code to accept relative layout and set background once you have the image

Just add the image to the background of RelativeLayout. It should be 1st in order to be behind all other views in the layout. Then you can use it with code that expects an ImageView.
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/an_image"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<!--other views go here-->
</RelativeLayout>
And no, you can't cast between these types, obviously. This is Java!

No this is simply not possible because these are completely different types.
You can cast any RelativeLayout or ImageView to View, because this is the base class for all views.
But what you are trying to do should be a little different. You can inflate the ImageView from the RelativeLayout because it is the parent.
I will add a code snippet later.
Update :
// First inflate your layout
View layout = (View)findViewById(R.layout.relativelayout);
// Then inflate the imageview from the layout
ImageView imgview = (ImageView)layout.findViewById(R.id.bground_image);
// Then do your download logic with the imageview
downloader = new ImageDownloader();
downloader.download(item.imageurl(), imgview);
Let me know if this works ;).

How to insert an image in the linear layout?

I just wanted to insert an image in linear layout similar to this
Can anyone help me with this???

You are probably looking for ImageButton since your picture shows something similar to that.
Alternatively, take a look at ImageView

set layout's orientation to horizontal, then add 4 images in xml, one after another, add ids like image1, image2 etc, then call them in your onCreate like ImageView image
ImageView image1 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image1)
and so on, then you can either set "src" attribute in yoru xml or say image1.setImageBitmap or any other method available in ImageView class to set the image you want from your res/drawable/

you can use ImageButton in horizontal LinearLayout
make background of the ImageButton #null
then put the margins between them

Android button with texts and image

I want to set a button in my Android application that is comprised of text (left aligned), image and another text (right aligned).
Text1, Text2 and image must be customizable from code.
I am a noob in Android development and I only can guess that Text1 and Text2 should be defined as TextView and image should be defined as ImageView. But it is impossible to set them as children to Button because button is not a ViewGroup.
How do I specify it in xml layout file?

Yeah its easy. Place all these component in a single relative layout. Then follow this:
RelativeLayout rl= ( RelativeLayout ) findViewById(R.layout.relative_layout_id);
rl.setOnClickListener(this);
rl.setOnTouchListener(this);
rl.setOnDragListener(this);
In TouchListener method, you will get a view as a parameter. So you get the id of the view using
switch(viewObj.getId()
{
case R.layout.relative_layout_id :
//write your logic here
break;
]
In OnClick method, write your logic, so where ever you perform click on that relative layout your onclick() method will execute.

Drawing into a LinearLayout

I'm trying to draw an image into a LinearLayout, or TableRow, but I'm having already a XML FILE (I want to draw inside some LinearLayout). I don't know exactly how to do it. I was trying this:
TableRow mytable = (TableRow) findViewById(R.id.tablatexto);
ImageView myImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.drawable.personaje1);
mytable.addView(myImage);
Thanks
Editing: I want to explaint it better. What I want to is creating a animation drawing images depending of a thread. So, I want to draw to some in LinearLayout from the Activity.

If you wan't to add dynamic layout in the container layout then you can use containerLayout.addView(childView);
childView is the dynamic layout which you can create using code or you can get a view of the layout using LayoutInflater class.