Dynamically add textViews to a linearLayout

Question

I read this somewhere here and I totally lost it, but could use some assistance.

My app is pulling the column names from sqlite into an array. I want to create a tex

Answer 1

Using ArrayList may help you add any number of TextViews dynamically. You may even want to delete a specific TextView from the parent linear layout. This is a memory efficient way. Following is a snippet.

ArrayList mTextViewList = new ArrayList<>(); //empty list of TextViews

if(condition){ 
    /* can repeat several times*/

    //Create a temporary instance which will be added to the list
    final TextView mTextView = new TextView(this);

    //Add the instance to the ArrayList
    mTextViewList.add(mTextView);

    //Add view to the Parent layout in which you want to add your views
    mLinearLayout.addView(mTextView);
}

//Change the text of 6th(index:5) TextView which was added
mTextViewList.get(5).setText("My Text");

//Remove 2nd(index:1) TextView from the parent LinearLayout
mLinearLayout.removeView(mTextViewList.get(1));