Android: Can a view (not a viewgroup) contain another view?

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I mean something like this

public class ConditionalEditText extends EditText implements TextWatcher
{
    TextView tv;
    ....
}

The TextView is supposed to be displayed only when the EditText satisfies some user specified condition.

I tried to do it like this

public class ConditionalEditText extends LinearLayout implements TextWatcher
{
    EditText edt;
    TextView tv;
    ....
}

but then I cannot specify different XML attributes for edt for different instances of the view in my main layout.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 02 '13 at 06:19

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no, only ViewGroup can have child Views

answered Aug 02 '13 at 06:19

pskink

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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Turns out there is a way to do this after all. You can anchor a PopupWindow containing any view(s) you want to another View, which is just what I wanted. I got the code to do so from this link and modified it for my needs.

http://code.google.com/p/simple-quickactions/

All thanks to Qberticus for making it!

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Aug 03 '13 at 14:00

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Android: Can a view (not a viewgroup) contain another view?

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