How to add a button control to an android xml view at runtime?

Question

I have an android xml layout, main.xml. I would like to add controls to this layout at runtime (I would like to add a series of additional linear layouts that contain button

Answer 1

Ok, I have got it to work.

The steps are the following: First inflate the xml layout, ie,

View view = View.inflate(this, R.layout.main, null);

Then instantiate the container object from the xml layout into a ViewGroup class, ie,

ViewGroup container = (ViewGroup) view.findViewById(R.id.myContainer);

Then create a linearLayout object, create and add onto that any controls needed, add the linearLayout to the container object and use setContentView on the view object, ie,

container.addView(buttonsLayout);
this.setContentView(view);