Accessing dynamically generated view id (Android)

Question

I'd like to dynamically a series of views that are accessible by an id name. ViewCompat.generateViewId sounds like a promising way of doing so, but I have not seen a way to assign a name to that id.

I'm looking for something like this:

TextView tv = new TextView(this);

tv.setId(ViewCompat.generateViewId);

tv.setIdName("myTextView");

Is there any way to retrieve a dynamically generated resource id by a name? Otherwise, is it possible to edit ids.xml to assign a name to the id?

Answer 1

Try this: tv.setId(View.generateViewId()); And to get it just call: tv.getId();