How to inflate another view from another view in Android

Question

I know in my onCreate() I can inflate a view from XML by something like:

loadingScreen = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.loadingScreen);

But how could I do this from another view? Im trying to call up a loading screen by setting its visibility from GONE to VISIBLE but cant seem to figure out how to do this from my glSurfaceView

Answer 1

If you want to inflate a layout the code looks like this:

LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
LinearLayout myRoot = new LinearLayout(context);
View itemView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.layout_details, myRoot);

Here you first create a new LinearLayout an then inflate the layout with id R.layout.layout_details into it. The inflate method then returns the myRoot view.

Here is a tutorial about the LayoutInflater:

• Layout resources in Android