“Avoid passing null as the view root” warning when inflating view for use by AlertDialog

Question

I get the lint warning, Avoid passing null as the view root when inflating views with null as parent, like:

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Answer 1

From the documentation of View.inflate(), it says

Inflate a view from an XML resource. This convenience method wraps the LayoutInflater class, which provides a full range of options for view inflation.

  @param context The Context object for your activity or application.
  @param resource The resource ID to inflate
  @param root A view group that will be the parent.  Used to properly inflate the  layout_* parameters.