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Dileep Perla
Dileep Perla

Reputation: 1865

Android: Unable to inflate EditText in the layout

I am trying to inflate a EditText view inside a RelativeLayout in my Activity.

But getting an error says:

The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first.

My code:

RelativeLayout relLayout= new RelativeLayout(insideActivity);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,           RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
relLayout.setLayoutParams(params);

LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.holo_edit_text, null);
EditText searchBox = (EditText)view.findViewById(R.id.holo_text);

relLayout.addView(searchBox);

And here is holo_edit_text.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <EditText 
        android:id="@+id/holo_text"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:singleLine="true" />

</RelativeLayout>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2312

Answers (4)

Dileep Perla
Dileep Perla

Reputation: 1865

I have fixed my issue by simply setting the LayoutParams to searchBox before adding it to the RelativeLayout. And its working fine.

Thanks all for your response.

Upvotes: 0

SeahawksRdaBest
SeahawksRdaBest

Reputation: 886

Use a try/catch mechanism. 

    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            if (rootView != null) {
                ((ViewGroup) rootView.getParent()).removeView(rootView);
            }
              try {
               rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.your_layout_file_here, container,false);
               EditText searchBox = (EditText)rootView.findViewById(R.id.holo_text);
               relLayout.addView(searchBox);
              } catch (InflateException e) {

              }
            return rootView;
        }

Upvotes: 0

Michael Shrestha
Michael Shrestha

Reputation: 2555

your holo_edit_text.xml should be 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <EditText 
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/holo_text"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:singleLine="true"
     />

And the way you add it to the view should be like this

EDIT (use getLayoutInflater() instead)

 View view = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.holo_edit_text, null);
 //EditText searchBox = (EditText)view.findViewById(R.id.holo_text);
 //The last sentence is not neccesary
 relLayout.addView(view);

Have you tried this while adding to relative layout

    RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
    params.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_LEFT, RelativeLayout.TRUE);
    relLayout.addView(view, params);

Upvotes: 1

Hariharan
Hariharan

Reputation: 24853

Try this..

View child_view = LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.holo_edit_text, null);
relLayout.addView(child_view);

Upvotes: 0

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