It's not random at all. findViewById() is a depth-first search algorithm; it will return the first view of the specified id it can find.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Mark Murphy<[email protected]> wrote: > > Tom wrote: >> Can someone tell me what would be the outcome of using findViewById >> when multiple child views have the same ID lets say for example when >> using a layout to dynamically produce multiples of the same control? > > Random chance as to which one you will get. > > If you need one for a specific, say, row, call findViewById() on the row > View to find that View's child with the common name. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Development Wiki: http://wiki.andmob.org > > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
