How to refer to TableLayout cells in code

Question

I have a TableLayout defined in my xml with three columns and four rows plus a heading row. Each column contains a TextView.

    <TableLayout
    android:id="@+id/inventory"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:stretchColumns="*"
    <TableRow>
        <TextView
            android:text="Item"/>
        <TextView
            android:text="Quantity"/>
        <TextView
            android:text="Units"/>
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow>
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell10"
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell11"
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell12"
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow>
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell20"
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell21"
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell22"
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow>
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell30"
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell31"
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell32"
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow>
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell40"
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell41"
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/inventorycell42"
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>

Is there any way of referring to the TextViews in code, without having to id them individually. I was thinking there might be come way of getting row/col views from the tableview.

-Frink

Answer 1

You can use ViewGroup#getChildAt and ViewGroup#getChildCount. getChildAt on your root TableLayout will allow you to get the TableRows and subsequently calling it on the TableRows will allow you to access the TextViews.