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Shinnyx
Shinnyx

Reputation: 2264

Android views management

I'm currently writting an android application and I'd like it to be well written/designed.

Right now I have a set of multiples views (2 images views, 3 textviews) in a relative layout that I use pretty often. Is there any way to create a custom view that regroup them all?

I've took this screenshot to explain what I've done right now:

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As you can see, right now I've just copied/pasted my framelayout which contain all my views... Is this the proper way to do it or there's a cleaner solution?

Thanks guys

Upvotes: 2

Views: 129

Answers (2)

Emil Adz
Emil Adz

Reputation: 41099

No a better way would be to put all the content you putting in you layouts in a ArrayList of objects. and then create an ArrayAdapter to populate a ListView from this objects the way you want.

The advantage of this technic is that you gain a Views recycle mechanism that will recycle the Views inside you ListView in order to spend less memory.

In Short you would have to:

1. Create an object that represents your data for a single row.

2. Create an ArrayList of those objects.

3. Create a layout that contains a ListView or add a ListView to you main layout using code.

4. Create a layout of a single row (you already have it).

5. Create a ViewHolder that will represent the visual aspect of you data row from the stand point of Views.

6. Create a custom ArrayAdapter that will populate the rows according to you needs.

7. Finally assign this ArrayAdapter to your ListView in onCreate.

You can get an Idea of how to implement this by reading this blog post I wrote:

Create a Custom ArrayAdapter

Upvotes: 2

zimmryan
zimmryan

Reputation: 1099

If you do it in code instead of the interface builder you can use LayoutInflator to create a view from your xml each time, and then add those views as subviews to your LinearLayout. This would also allow you to vary the number without having to copy paste each new view.

LayoutInflater layoutInflator = (LayoutInflater) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.yourLayout);
for(int i=0; i<numOfSubViews; i++){
    View view = layoutInflator.inflate(R.layout.yourFrameLayout, null);
    ll.add(view);
}

Upvotes: 0

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