Does Android XML Layout's 'include' Tag Really Work?

Question

I am unable to override attributes when using in my Android layout files. When I searched for bugs, I found Declined Issue 2863:

\"include tag is bro

Answer 1

I submitted an enhancement request to allow all included attributes to be overridden:

Suppose I have two identical layouts other than the values of a TextView field. Presently, I either have modify the layout at runtime or duplicate the XML.

For example to pass two parameters with values "hello" and "world" to layout1:

layout1a.xml:

An alternate implementation would break encapsulation and would allow the include statement to override values like:

layout1b.xml: