"Avoid passing null as the view root" warning when inflating view for use by AlertDialog

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Randy Sugianto 'Yuku' picture Randy Sugianto 'Yuku' · Oct 16, 2014 · Viewed 43.2k times · Source

I get the lint warning, Avoid passing null as the view root when inflating views with null as parent, like:

LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.dialog_edit, null);

However, the view is to be used as the content of an AlertDialog, using setView on AlertDialog.Builder, so I don't know what should be passed as the parent.

What do you think the parent should be in this case?

Answer

Edward Brey picture Edward Brey · Oct 27, 2014

Use this code to inflate the dialog view without a warning:

View.inflate(context, R.layout.dialog_edit, null);

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