How do I access the views inside the layout when I reuse it multiple times?

Question

I have read the Android UI trick 2 on Android developers, which tells people how to include a layout in another layout file multiple times, and give these included layouts d

Answer 1

Say you want to include this:

so in your code you insert it like this:

now you want to access the text views within the included layouts to set the text dynamically. In your code you simply type:

LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.header_1);
TextView tv = (TextView)ll.findViewById(R.id.included_text_view);
tv.setText("Header Text 1");

ll = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.header_2);
tv = (TextView)ll.findViewById(R.id.included_text_view);
tv.setText("Header Text 2");

notice that you use the individual LinearLayouts' findViewById methods to narrow the search to only their children.