On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Doug Gordon <gordo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm just getting into developing my app, which will have quite a > number of activities and thus quite a few XML files to lay out the > screens and define all the views. What I'm just seeing is that if I > assign the IDs using "@+id/name", I'll have to have a unique name for > every widget on every screen since all the symbols get defined in one > big R.java file. > > Or can I just generate the definitions once in one of the XML files > and then reference them in the other layout files? For example, if I > have a TextView that I'd like to call "surname" in multiple layout > files, can I declare it one of the files using "@+id/surname" and then > simply use "@id/surname" in the other files? I assume that as long as > all the IDs are unique within a layout file, all is OK.
No, you can't declare it that way. However, if you use @+id/surname multiple times, only one R.id.surname entry goes in R.java. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.1 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
