Tutorial: Using ViewInflater

Using ViewInflater

The original tutorial shows how to dynamically create a GUI using objects.

However, there is an alternative, you can dynamically parse Android XML using the org.droiddraw.android.ViewInflater class from droiddraw.org

Steps

Create a new application

ruboto gen app --package org.ruboto.example.view_inflater --target android-14

Download ViewInflater.java

ViewInflater.java on Google Code

Install ViewInflater.java

mkdir -p src/org/droiddraw/android

cp ViewInflater.java src/org/droiddraw/android

Write the ruby code

require 'ruboto/widget'

java_import "org.droiddraw.android.ViewInflater"
ruboto_import_widgets :Button, :LinearLayout, :TextView

class ViewInflaterActivity
  def on_create bundle
    setTitle 'This is the Title'
    inflater = ViewInflater.new(self)
    text = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>" +
         "<LinearLayout " +
            "xmlns:android='http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android' " +
            "android:layout_width='fill_parent' " +
            "android:layout_height='fill_parent'" +
            "android:orientation='vertical' >" +
          "<TextView android:text='Hello, I am a TextView' />" +
          "<Button android:text='Hello, I am a Button' />" +
         "</LinearLayout>"
    view = inflater.inflate(text)
    self.setContentView view
  end
end

Compile and Run

rake

adb install ...

jsilver note: new edit's don't work for me.