This might be a silly question, but I would like to generate a layout xml file for android on the server, and when the user presses a button, the xml file is loaded into the android app.
Is this possible at all?
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This might be a silly question, but I would like to generate a layout xml file for android on the server, and when the user presses a button, the xml file is loaded into the android app.
Is this possible at all?
I do not think it is possible. The layout inflator documentation is here:
From the documentation the constructor:
states:
Why not just create the xml for the views and build them into the application? That is how Android Apps are typically done. If you want to support totally dynamically generated screens then it is going to be a lot of work. You could do it by developing your own layout sytax, and creating a view that knows how to dynamically render a view from that syntax. Essentially you would need to reinvent the layout inflator thats built into the OS.