Scope of R.id values

Question

I\'m looking for ways to reduce what I would call \"id pollution\" in my apps. From what I can tell, R.id is global to the application, so in every Activity I

Answer 1

I use:

R.id.activityName_type_action

where type may be [btn|txtview|edittext|listview...]

and action is something like [save|del|accept|name|pin...]

It's pretty verbose, but this way I can guess the identifier name from the activity without having to continuosly check the xml layout.

For example:

R.id.loginpin_btn_accept

R.id.loginpin_txtview_pin