You can declare IDs in your res/values/resources.xml file, like this: <resources> <item type="id" name="common_control_01"/> <item type="id" name="common_control_02"/> </resources>
Then, refer to the id in your layout simply with @id/common_control_01 If you have a bunch of common IDs, this might be a good approach. Regards, Jef On Aug 24, 3:02 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > 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/commonsguyhttp://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
