Adding elements to the layout?

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I had this question earlier today, and have been stuck on this for 3 hours!

The answer suggested that it is okay to remove the activity_content as long as I remove the line:

    <include layout="@layout/content_menu" />

I did that...And started to edit directly in the layout, after copying the default contents of content, except...the layout isn't even there when editing! So, am I supposed to keep both layouts, and just edit the content one? Why do I even need to do that? Is there a reason for this update in android studio?

I'm just creating my activities like this:

@BenjaminScharbau I copied the **default** code from `content` and pasted it into `activity_menu` — Ruchir Baronia, Dec 04 '15 at 02:53
I'm sorry, I don't get your problem. You copied the code from `content` into `activity_menu`, but your app is not displaying it as expected, right? — Benjamin Scharbau, Dec 04 '15 at 02:54
@BenjaminScharbau Yes, and the relative layout isn't showing in the component tree either. Can you explain what `content` even is? — Ruchir Baronia, Dec 04 '15 at 02:58
`content` is included if you want to use your layout in different fragments so you can reuse it. — Benjamin Scharbau, Dec 04 '15 at 03:00
And for your question: You must have deleted your `activity_menu` somewhere on accident. — Benjamin Scharbau, Dec 04 '15 at 03:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '15 at 05:41

yes you can just leave the activity_yourclassname.xml as it is and make changes to content_yourclassname.xml only for the main content.

and yes this update is made just to make code more cleaner and more reusable. so that you could focus only on the main internal content of the code without getting into complex layouts.

Adding elements to the layout?

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