I just need someone to tell me if I understood correctly when to use <include> and when <merge>.
So, I make a header layout which I want to include into some other XML layout:
it is a my merge sample for adding the two views
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Header text" />
</LinearLayout>
And I include it into some other XML this way (which is pretty basic):
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<include android:id="@+id/header" layout="@layout/top"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</LinearLayout>
This will work well, no issue about it. But in order to optimize the code, I have to use <merge> in the layout which gets included. So the top layout should not have a tag <LinearLayout> but it must look like this:
<merge xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Header text" />
</merge>
Have I understood this correctly?
