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Asked: 2026-05-27T22:06:59+00:00

As mentioned in topic, I have some Views, e.g. a TableRow with always the

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As mentioned in topic, I have some Views, e.g. a TableRow with always the same background used as topic, or a special TableRow containing a TextView with some special styles/properties. These Views are set dynamically, so it’s problematic to use a XML for this. As I read it’s not possible to set styles programmatically too. So what’s the best way to solve that?

Possibility 1:
I use and instance derived Views, like this: 

public class TopicTableRow extends TableRow {

    public TopicTableRow(Context context) {
        super(context);

        setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
        setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#777777"));
        setClickable(false);
    }
}

Possibility 2:
I could create a valid xml template with a special layout I never use in the application, containing the needed Views which have already all assigned styles. Afterward I access the needed Views by R.id….
But this method seems to be very dilettante to me.

I don’t think that those 2 possibilities are the “real” Android way to do this, so how is this usually done?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to set specific styles for groups of elements, you can use the themes and styles concepts in android.

    You can read up on them here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html

    It is not possible though to change the style attribute of a view programatically.

    Therefore the android way is probably to create the Views you need in XML and use a LayoutInflater to get create an ‘java’ version of the xml view. This allows you to reuse the component and fill it with apropriate data for as many rows as you would like.

    Button view = (Button) LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.textViewFromWeb, null);

    I hope this will be of use to you!

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