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Reputation: 1722

Dynamically create new Textviews in Kotlin Android

I was unable to find any question on StackOverflow about this:

I dynamically want to add TextView objects to a ScrollView (see XML layout) using Kotlin.

The simplified XML structure:

<ScrollView>
  <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/entry_list" />
</ScrollView>

What the app should look like after I execute the Kotlin:

<ScrollView>
  <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/entry_list" />
    <TextView android:text="Dynamically added text" />
  </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

(note: The actual XML will not be changed in Runtime, this just describes what it should look like afterwards)

How can I use Kotlin to achieve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4562

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 1722

Solution

I did some research on this, it is quite simple:

val dynamicTextview = TextView(this)

dynamicTextview.text = "Dynamically added text"

// add TextView to LinearLayout
entry_list.addView(dynamicTextview)

(note: you should import TextView, if you use Android Studio, it should prompt you to import that automatically)

Just add this code somewhere in the Activity you want to add the TextView to.

References

Upvotes: 2

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