How to inflate one view with a layout
I'm not sure I have followed your question- are you trying to attach a child view to the RelativeLayout? If so you want to do something along the lines of:
RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.item);View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.child, null);item.addView(child);
You inflate an XML resource. See the LayoutInflater doc .
If your layout is in a mylayout.xml, you would do something like:
View view; LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.mylayout, null);RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.item);
Though late answer, but would like to add that one way to get this
LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater)this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); View view = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.mylayout, item );where item is the parent layout where you want to add a child layout.