Get id's when click (ANDROID)

Question

Simple question, i have this code

<HorizontalScrollView
    android:id="@+id/horizontalScrollView1"
    ...

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/insideLinearLayout1"
        ...
        <TextField>
          android:text='beforeClick'
          ...

         <Button
            android:id="@+id/button1"
            android:onClick="updateExpression"
            ...


   </Linear Layout 

   <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/insideLinearLayout2"
        ...

          <TextField>
          android:text='beforeClick'
          ...
         <Button
            android:id="@+id/button1"
            android:onClick="updateExpression"
            ...


   </Linear Layout 

    </LinearLayout>
</HorizontalScrollView>

The idea, is to change the textField text property, when clicking the button on the same layout!

Ok for 2 is easy, just need the reference of each button and each textfield and change use the get and set method! But i want to add more layouts dynamically, and grab each one's reference would be a hard task.

So two questions :

1. How can i grab the id of the Linear layout, that have the clicked button?

   I want to handle the 'insideLinearLayout(1 or 2 depending on the clicked button)'id in the 'updateExpression'!

2. How can i add more layouts with the same widgets as the ones created manually?

Thank you in advance. Best of codings!

Answer 1

1)Your onClick function is passed the view that was clicked. Every view has a getParent() function. You can use it to get the LinearLayout, then get the id.

2)Create them with the new keyword then add them to the parent layout. For something like this I would probably make a custom compund view holding everything you want to instantiate at once, so you can treat the entire set of widgets as one.