It's the right way to do it :)
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Ryan Moulton wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response! If I'd known I could get an answer so
> quickly here I'd have posted _last_ week. :)
> I can debug it from here then.
>
> Is the best way to do this View.inflate(activity,
> R.layout.what_id_like_to_inflate, null)?
>
>
>
> On Feb 1, 11:07 pm, Romain Guy wrote:
>> Inflating a views tree always creates new instances of views, there's
>> no singleton. Without seeing your code, I cannot tell you what you are
>> doing wrong unfortunately.
>>
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>>
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Ryan Moulton wrote:
>> > Hi everyone. Just getting started with developing for Android, so
>> > apologies if there's an obvious answer.
>>
>> > I'm working on an application in which it's necessary to
>> > programmatically change the entire structure of the UI. What I would
>> > like to be able to do is specify a subtree of the UI in xml, and then
>> > instantiate that multiple times as required throughout the tree. For
>> > instance, if I need the user to set a numerical value, I'd like to use
>> > xml to define all the widgets involved, increment and decrement
>> > buttons for instance, and then reference this same file whenever I
>> > need a UI of that sort.
>>
>> > Unfortunately, When I inflate the xml multiple times, I get the
>> > following exception.
>>
>> > IllegalStateException
>> > "The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView()
>> > on the child's parent first."
>>
>> > This I'm assuming is because Inflating isn't creating a new object
>> > each time, but rather creating a static singleton. Is there a good way
>> > to do what I'm hoping to do, or should I abandon trying to use the xml
>> > interface?
>>
>> > -Ryan
>>
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