Question

So I have a layout that gets added to the main layout every time the user presses a button. I got that working fine, but that layout happens to consist of several EditTexts. What would be the best way to get the text from the EditText? I only have the id of the layout itself, not the EditTexts inside the layout.

I thought of just adding EditTexts dynamically one by one, but is there a more efficient way of doing it? I’d much rather just inflate an xml layout every the button is clicked.

Answer 1

I assume you’re adding new views by inflating them and then adding them to the main view similar to below.

LinearLayout newView = (LinearLayout)this.getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.my_layout, null);

LinearLayout mainView = (LinearLayout)this.findViewById(R.id.mainLayout);
mainView.addView(newView);

You can use findViewById() on the newView to access each EditText as required.

EditText editText = (EditText) newView.findViewById(R.id.myButton);
String text = editText.getText().toString();