What does it mean to inflate a view from an xml file?

Question

I am new to android development and keep coming across references to Inflating views from a layout xml file. I googled and searched the development guide but still wasn\'t

Answer 1

I think here "inflating a view" means fetching the layout.xml file drawing a view specified in that xml file and POPULATING ( = inflating ) the parent viewGroup with the created View.