Set text of Android RemoteViews inside layout when include it multiple times

Question

I refer to this question: How do I access the views inside the layout when I reuse it multiple times?

I have the following two layouts:

<!-- layout_to_include.xml -->
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

</LinearLayout>

and

<!-- widget.xml -->
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <include
        android:id="@+id/included_layout_1"
        layout="@layout/layout_to_include"/>

    <include
        android:id="@+id/included_layout_2"
        layout="@layout/layout_to_include"/>

</LinearLayout>

Normally, you can access the TextViews programmatically inside the included layout like this:

LinearLayout l1 = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.included_layout_1);
((TextView) l1.findViewById(R.id.text_view)).setText("test1");

LinearLayout l2 = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.included_layout_2);
((TextView) l2.findViewById(R.id.text_view)).setText("test2");

But in my case, I have an Android AppWidget which can only accessed via RemoteViews:

RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget);
views.setTextViewText(R.id.text_view, "test1");

This will only change the text of the first TextView.

I have not find any solution, so my question is whether is it possible to set the text of the TextView within multiple included layouts.

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '18 at 02:55

Can be done.

Remove your includes; you need to add programmatically (no other way AFAIK), so add id (e.g. LinearLayout) to your widget's linearlayout, and:

RemoteViews one = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.layout_to_include);
one.setTextViewText(R.id.text_view, "tv-ONE"); // <---
remoteViews.addView(R.id.LinearLayout, one);

RemoteViews two = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.layout_to_include);
two.setTextViewText(R.id.text_view, "tv-TWO"); // <---
remoteViews.addView(R.id.LinearLayout, two);

Set text of Android RemoteViews inside layout when include it multiple times

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