How to share common layout between activities without fragment

Question

Is there any possible way to share layout(part) between activities? For example, in my app, all activities have similar layout, the top part is long operation indicator (a progr

Answer 1

Although ActivityGroup is deprecated fro API 13 but if you don't wish to go with fragments then this can be your best choice.

According to documentation, an ActivityGroup is:

A screen that contains and runs multiple embedded activities.

You can find a tutorial here and here Although the mentioned tutorial uses a Tablayout you can replace that with your common layout in XML.

A second Approach could be Reuse the layout with include tag, in this approach you could just reuse your once created common layout everywhere in the app.