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Well, I'll say it like this.

I have a table with 2 columns. The first colum has names of items, the 2nd colums contains x amount of logos/indicators (ImageButtons). Several items can have the same logo/indicators.

My question is can I assign several ImageButtons to the same id? I've tried with using android:id="@+id/logo1" on the first and then "android:id=@id/logo1" on all the following occurences. This does not seem to work however. I can probably assign each button a different id and then just assign those to the same View, but it would be so much easier if I could just repeat the same ImageButton id for all the similar logos/indicators.

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    please define "not seem to work" and show some of your code/xml – dldnh Mar 24 '12 at 11:00
  • Why should it work. Without looking into the code of findViewById I would guess that it stops after the I'd is found. And it would have to return an array of views as result. – KarlKarlsom Mar 24 '12 at 11:25
  • About the "Does not seem to work" I mean that the clicks aren't registered. So any reused ids are just bypassed. – Tom Mar 24 '12 at 12:24

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No, you can't use the same ids in same layout if there behavior is different.

Yes, you can use the same ids but in different layouts. In fact, it may be good practice to.

Android has some default id here they are declaring in ids.xml and reusing it in different views.

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