Dynamic UI Layout Rendering Android

Feature

• Dynamically load text-input, text-drop-down,text-field from business data

Blocker

• Inability to set custom ids to set the required text and hints for the ui components.

Solution

• Since the layout is defined the child elements can be retrieved using the
• layout.getChildAt(index) — this will return the ui component at the given index
• getResources().getIdentifier(<id>,<resourceType>,<activity.getPackageName()>) — this will return the ui component that is using the id that was defined earlier

Sample Code

LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout) inflater.inflate(view, null, false);
TextView labelTextView = (TextView) linearLayout.getChildAt(<index>);labelTextView.setId(<id>);
TextView specialNotesTextInputLabel =  (TextView)rootView.findViewById(getResources().getIdentifier(<id>,<resource-type>,<activity>);
specialNotesTextInputLabel.setText(<text>);