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How to inflate another xml on clicking a button


I have one Activity in that there are no Buttons but I have coded it in such a way that another Activity comes, now in this second Activity there are three Buttons, on which when I click all inflating different respective activities. In this second Activity there I have added one more Button, on clicking this 4th Button I don't want another Activity to come in foreground instead i just want another layout to be inflated(I don't wanna change the Activity) In that layout(which i need to inflate) I have a ListView which has a list of certain sites, when this layout is inflated the list of sites should be shown and as i click on there sites its should take me to that webpage.

PROBLEM 1: How to inflate just the xml on click of the 4th Button without changing the Activity.

PROBLEM 2: When the xml is inflated and if I click on BackButton the Activity containing all the 4 Buttons should be displayed.

Here is the code that I'm using to inflate another xml:

fourthButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        callingMore();
    }
});
private void callingMore() {
    LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
    View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.web_site_list_xml, (ViewGroup)findViewById(R.id.site_list));
}

BUT this code gives a force close and no xml is being inflated and if I use setContentView( R.layout.web_site_list_xml) inside callingMore() method the xml is inflated but that xml doesn't show anything and then if I hit BackButton, the Activity that has all 4 Buttons isn't shown.


Solution

  • I tried this code..hope helps to you..

    1.layout_existed.xml

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:id="@+id/existedlayout"
        >
       <Button  
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="Clicck to inflate view"
        android:id="@+id/button"
        />
    </LinearLayout>   
    

    2.layout_toinfliate.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <LinearLayout
      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent">
      <TextView
      android:id="@+id/mytext"
      android:text="You inflated me..i added to u r layout"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      />
    </LinearLayout>
    

    3.LayoutInflateDemo.java

      public class LayoutInflateDemo extends Activity {
    
        private LinearLayout layoutToAdd;
    
        @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.layout_existed);
            layoutToAdd = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.existedlayout);
    
            Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
            button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater
                            .from(getApplicationContext());
                    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.layout_toinfliate, null);
                    layoutToAdd.addView(view);
    
                }
            });
        }
    }