How to get ViewGroup after inflate layout in Android?

Question

I have layout with my custom view like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignTop="@+id/imageView1"
    android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imageView1"
    android:text="Username"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
    android:textStyle="bold" />

.....

And then I want to get ViewGroup from this xml files. But the manner that I know is just inflate the layout with View Inflater like this LayoutInflater.inflate(R.id.my_layout) and the return is just View And my layout is absolutely RelativeLayout that extends ViewGroup.

How can I get My Relativelayout as ViewGroup programmatically?

Answer 1

After inflating typecast it into relative layout. In android every layout is view which is super class of all views and viewgroups..

you have to typecast like this..

convertView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.header, null);
RelativeLayout lyLayout=(RelativeLayout) convertView;