Question

Is there a way to create an array containing actual instances of views. For example, if I have one LinearLayout called Container that has within it 3 other LinearLayouts with the same Tag attribute and I wanted to get a list containing all 3 LinearLayouts so I can loop through and handle each.

Tried:

LinearLayout[] layouts = (LinearLayout[]) Container.FindViewWithTag(tag);

and

List<LinearLayout> layouts = (List<LinearLayout>) Container.FindViewWithTag(tag);

and

foreach(LinearLayout layouts in Container.FindViewWithTag(tag))

None of these have been acceptable to Android so far. Another acceptable way to handle my situation would be to just be able to assign each LinearLayout a Parent. But I haven’t found a way to programatically set a view’s parent, only how to get a view’s parent.

Answer 1

What I have understood from your question that you want the child of Linear Layout. Yes, you can get the child of linear layout by container.getChild(index)

for(int i=0;i<container.getChildCount();i++){
       View child=container.getChildAt(i);
       //your processing....
  }