How to Inflate view from XML in Android?

Gnanam R picture Gnanam R · Apr 12, 2012 · Viewed 36.1k times · Source

I'm creating a tableLayout [given in XML]

adding table Row [created in XML and inflating in Java]

also adding 2 textview to the table Row [created in XML and inflating in JAVA]

I'm able to get only the background and textcolors but not the layout properties like width, height and margin to get table view.

Answer

ChallengeAccepted picture ChallengeAccepted · Oct 1, 2013
  1. First declare your inflater.

    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getApplicationContext().getSystemService
      (Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    
  2. Identify and inflate the new view you seek to project on the current view.

    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.new_layout,null);
    
  3. You would want to add your new inflated view to your layout.

    main.addView(view);
    

You can reference additional information here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/LayoutInflater.html

Update May 2019 (Kotlin): This is how you would inflate a view from XML in Kotlin. this is referring to an activity.

val view = this.layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.dialog_upgrade, null)
mainLayout.addView(view)