Question

I thought I read somewhere that you can set up your custom view classes in a way so that you don’t need to reference them in your XML by the fully qualified class name. However, I can’t find anything about this anymore.

Does anyone know how this can be done?

Answer 1

Create your own LayoutInflater and give that to System’s LayoutInflator via setFactory() or setFactory2(). Your LayoutInflator‘s will be called first, and it’s here you can just inflate your own View classes just by their name (as your LayoutInflator will use the package name you tell it to).