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gduh
gduh

Reputation: 1182

Adding multiple custom views inside Layout programmatically using multi lines if required

In Java, building an Android app, I need to create one or more custom views and insert them in a Layout.

Each view can have different width. The heigh is always the same. I would like to place each view side by side and if the right border of the screen is reached, the next one must go to a new line.

In fact, imagine that each view represents a word, all the words are a paragraph. So all my custom view must be placed like the words, side by side and line by line.

Is there a way to do this easily with any existing Android object ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 291

Answers (1)

shafayat hossain
shafayat hossain

Reputation: 1129

You can try ChipGroup and Chip. I think it will meet your requirements. At first add ChipGroup in your view xml like this:

<com.google.android.material.chip.ChipGroup
    android:id="@+id/cgWords"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

Then, to dynamically add Chip in this, sample code can be as following:

private void showTags(List<String> words) {
    for (String word : words) {
        Chip chip = new Chip(context);
        chip.setText(word);
        ChipGroup cgWords = findViewById(R.id.cgWords);
        cgWords.addView(chip);
    }
}

This is a screenshot after running a sample code:

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Upvotes: 1

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