Question

Is there a dynamic way to get at the root layout (the one that is the parent to all the other Layouts) in the XML currently set to my Activity?

What I’m after is rather than giving my root layout an explicit id and finding it via findViewById, I’m hoping to get something along the lines of

pseudo code:

this.findTopLayout();

having already called setContentView(R.layout.foo);

I’m not seeing anything in the spec that would do the trick, am I just missing it, or is there no way to do this?

Answer 1

You try out this way to get the root layout:

getWindow().getDecorView().findViewById(android.R.id.content);

OR

getWindow().getDecorView().getRootView();