How to clone a View object so that it can be added to current view hierachy

Question

I like to know how can i clone a view object which is already there in the view hierarchy, so that it can be added to the same view hierarchy again.

This thread is similar http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3900044/clone-textview-to-append-it-to-a-viewgroup — Khaled Annajar, Jan 16 '13 at 14:09
http://stackoverflow.com/a/15761866/884674 a workaround is at this link. — jeet.chanchawat, Apr 30 '13 at 09:43

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 30 '12 at 11:32

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When using an xml layout you can define your view in another layout and use the <include ..> directive to put it in several places multiple times.

edited Aug 30 '12 at 11:32

Franci Penov

answered Feb 28 '10 at 09:15

Moritz

I suspect Mr. Reaper meant "use the `` directive" -- XML tags get eaten unless formatted as source code. You can also manually inflate such layouts using `getLayoutInflater()` and add them to a `ViewGroup`. What you cannot do is clone an existing in-Java view hiearchy -- at least, there does not appear to be any built-in code to do that. – CommonsWare Feb 28 '10 at 13:29
Well i am new this Android API, so dont know this directive but the `cannot do` is true... as i tried doing the same, i got runtime error – Amit Mar 02 '10 at 04:56
So, is there any way to clone a view from a view hierarchy already inflated at runtime, and use it elsewhere... – Amit Mar 02 '10 at 05:15
yeah sorry the include tag has been swallowed by the syntax formatter. – Moritz Mar 02 '10 at 16:23

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