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Asked: 2026-06-08T22:53:10+00:00

I’ve created a simple compound control containing an EditText and a Button underneath it,

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I’ve created a simple compound control containing an EditText and a Button underneath it, that clears whatever text is on the EditText view.

Everything works fine, but what i want to do is view this compound control as a whole (or single view) in hierarchy viewer, but whenever i load this, i see my custom control (which extends LinearLayout), and also the two sub views it contains.

I know its possible to do what i want because i have seen it in the Gmail application, which uses a custom view (CanvasConversationHeaderView) to display email items inside the ListView.

I need to do this because in my case my custom compound control contains a lot more single views than this example so i need to decrease the number of total views in my activity.

I hope someone can help me as to how to accomplish this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    How do you know CanvasConversationHeaderView from gmail is a compound view?

    If by compound view you are refering to ViewGroup, then that’s how hierarchyviewer works, it traverses the tree treating ViewGroup as internal nodes and View as leafs. If you don’t want this behaviour then don’t extend from ViewGroup (LinearLayout in this case).

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