What Does It Mean to Inflate a Layout

When you write an XML layout, it will be inflated by the Android OS which basically means that it will be rendered by creating view object in memory. Let’s call that implicit inflation (the OS will inflate the view for you).

What does inflate layout mean?

When you write an XML layout, it will be inflated by the Android OS which basically means that it will be rendered by creating view object in memory. Let’s call that implicit inflation (the OS will inflate the view for you).

How do you inflate a view in activity?

  1. LayoutInflater inflater;ViewGroup root;inflater.inflate(resource, root, false)
  2. LayoutInflater inflater;inflater.inflate(resource, null)
  3. ViewGroup parent;ViewGroup root;LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(resource, root, false)
Marcus Vance

Marcus Vance

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Marcus Vance is a cybersecurity auditor and technology writer dedicated to educating the public about online safety, data privacy regulations, enterprise security, and emerging cyber threats.

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