Question

Is it possible to find a view by id if it’s an ?:

<LinearLayout
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

    <include
      android:id="@+id/foo"
      layout="@layout/test" />

  ...

View view = findViewById(R.id.foo);

What is “view” in this case? Is it a view? Does it resolve to whatever the top-level element of “layout/test” is?

Thanks

Answer 1

You’re essentially overwriting the ID of the top-parent view in the layout your including, so what you’ll get is the top-view of the entire layout and it’s contents. The <include> tag is, in effect, a copy-and-paste of the contained layout. You can override the id tag and any attribute with layout_.