Question

I would like to know if its possible to add a view say textview directly from the activity (Dynamically) in android without actually having it in the layout ?

Answer 1

Inside your Activity:

TextView tv = new TextView(this);
tv.setId(42);

LayoutParams params = new LayoutParams(width, height);
params.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_LEFT);
tv.setLayoutParams(params);

setContentView(tv);

Where myView is the View you want to add a View to. It can be of any type you want.