Android TextView has height and width of 0

Question

I have a small project where I want to reuse a certain UI component a few time so I created a widget by expanding a ViewGroup. In that ViewGroup I inflated a view that conta

Answer 1

Did you try passing yourself as the root:

View.inflate(context, R.layout.xml, this); 

Since you will be the parent of this View that complies with the javadoc spec.