Creating LinearLayout Programmatically/Dynamically with Multiple Views

Question

I have a hierarchy that is like this:

• LinearLayout(horizontal)
  • ImageView
  • LinearLayout(vertical)
    • TextView
    • TextView
    • TextView
    • TextView

I want to be able to add the hierarchy above through iteration as long as there is data that could be obtained from the database(using Parse)

I have tried putting up the ImageView and LinearLayout under the parent LinearLayout but it doesn't seem to work. Here is my code in MainActivity.Java:

LinearLayout LL_Outer = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.new_linearLayoutOuter);
LL_Outer.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL); // set orientation
LL_Outer.setBackgroundColor(color.white); // set background
// set Layout_Width and Layout_Height
LinearLayout.LayoutParams layoutForOuter = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
LL_Outer.setLayoutParams(layoutForOuter);


LinearLayout LL_Inner = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.new_linearLayoutInner);
LL_Inner.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);
LL_Inner.setBackgroundColor(color.white);
LinearLayout.LayoutParams layoutForInner = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
LL_Inner.setLayoutParams(layoutForInner);

//LL_Outer.addView(LL_Inner);

ImageView IV = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_imageViewPP);
//IV.getLayoutParams().height = 55;
//IV.getLayoutParams().width = 55;
LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
params.setMargins(14, 12, 0, 0);
params.height = 55;
params.weight = 55;
IV.setBackgroundColor(color.black);
IV.setLayoutParams(params);

LL_Inner.addView(IV);
LL_Outer.addView(LL_Inner);

I don't know where I went wrong as my code did not prompt any error. Please help.

EDIT: I have edited the Orientations accordingly and when I run the app, it stops working. And prompts an error in LogCat saying "The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first.

Here's my XML:

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/new_linearLayoutOuter"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@color/white"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/new_imageViewPP"
            android:layout_width="55dp"
            android:layout_height="55dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="14dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="12dp"
            android:background="@color/black"
            android:contentDescription="@string/pp" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/new_linearLayoutInner"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@color/white"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <TextView 
            android:id="@+id/new_textView"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/movie_title"
            android:paddingTop="10dp"
            android:paddingLeft="7dp"
            android:textSize="15sp" /> <!-- Title of the movie -->

        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/review_by"
            android:paddingTop="3dp"
            android:paddingLeft="7dp"
            android:textSize="12sp" /> <!-- By -->

        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/movie_stars"
            android:paddingTop="3dp"
            android:paddingLeft="7dp"
            android:textSize="12sp" /> <!-- Rating and date -->

        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/sample_string"
            android:maxLines="5"
            android:scrollbars="vertical"
            android:paddingTop="10dp"
            android:paddingLeft="7dp"
            android:textSize="12sp"
            android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|right" /> <!-- Review content -->


    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Solution

You want that hierarchy programmatically.

- LinearLayout(horizontal) - ImageView - LinearLayout(vertical) - TextView - TextView - TextView - TextView

Ok lets start with Parent LinearLayout

LinearLayout parent = new LinearLayout(context);

parent.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
parent.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);

//children of parent linearlayout

ImageView iv = new ImageView(context);

LinearLayout layout2 = new LinearLayout(context);

layout2.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
layout2.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);

parent.addView(iv);
parent.addView(layout2);

//children of layout2 LinearLayout

TextView tv1 = new TextView(context);
TextView tv2 = new TextView(context);
TextView tv3 = new TextView(context);
TextView tv4 = new TextView(context);

layout2.addView(tv1);
layout2.addView(tv2);
layout2.addView(tv3);
layout2.addView(tv4);

And you are done :)

Comments

[Shajeel Afzal]

Your code throughs this exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first.

[Sagar Balyan]

How to create LayoutParams with values like width:0dp and height:100dp unlike match_parent and wrap_content

[klys]

I got same error about removeView() stackoverflow.com/questions/50065768/…