Re-usable android layouts

Question

I was wondering how everyone re-uses android layouts and components? Do you do the old copy/paste the existing code into the project, or is there a way to include the layouts and components into a jar file for re-use?

EDIT: For example if I have a list view, maybe I have another view that I am using for each list item in the listview, it could have an icon, and maybe a header row, and then a row with more details. While it is not hard to create this, it would be nice to be able to create this once generically and re-use it in different projects.

Answer 1

If you're using the layouts in the same project, the "include" tag will work:

<include android:id="@+id/the_id" layout="@layout/my_layout_to_include" />

for more information: http://www.curious-creature.org/

As for re-using across projects, I would suggest creating a custom view and distributing that in a jar file.