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Ruslan
Ruslan

Reputation: 9

Is posible to create two edittext identically on android xml?

I was wondering if is possible to create two edittext identically on same Activity without create a new id. For example, use one id to control both edittext.

      <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editText_timeminute"
            android:layout_width="58dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:ems="10"
            android:inputType="numberDecimal"
            android:maxLength="3" />

I tried to add this in layout without sucess:

     <EditText
            android:id="@id/editText_timeminute"
            android:layout_width="58dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:ems="10"
            android:inputType="numberDecimal"
            android:maxLength="3" />

Upvotes: 0

Views: 46

Answers (2)

Nikiole91
Nikiole91

Reputation: 350

No, you can't, the id must be unique for every item inside the same xml layout. But you can use the same id for different items in different layouts (this answer explains it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15811503/5837758).

Upvotes: 1

David Rauca
David Rauca

Reputation: 1583

You can't have 2 views with the same id on a layout (in different layouts it is possible). The ids are layout-wide unique.

Upvotes: 0

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