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I am new to Android development. Is it fine to use the same ID for images and TextViews in different Layout XML files?
When eclipse auto-list them for me, it lists all the layout variables from the project, so will it collide? Till now I have not noticed any problems using the same ID in different layouts, but I am concerned in long run.
It is recommended that you use different ids for different layouts. On the long run, when you will have a lot of layouts and therefor a lot of ids it will get very complicated to differentiate them.
I usually name my ids like this:
layoutName_elementId.It works for me to easily find the id I’m looking for, especially when using autocomplete (I know on what layout I’m working, but I don’t really know the id; in this case, with my naming strategy, I only type the layout name and it brings on all the ids of that layout).
More information on layouts and ids can be found here.