add and remove views in android dynamically?

Question

Hi. How do i add and remove views such has textviews from an android app like how you can on the original stock android contacts screen where you press a small icon on the right side of a field and it will either add or delete a field which consists of a textview and a editTextView from what i can see.

Any examples on how to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi You can try this way by adding relative layout and than add textview in that.

LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
            (LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT), (LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

RelativeLayout relative = new RelativeLayout(getApplicationContext());
relative.setLayoutParams(lp);

TextView tv = new TextView(getApplicationContext());
tv.setLayoutParams(lp);

EditText edittv = new EditText(getApplicationContext());
edittv.setLayoutParams(lp);

relative.addView(tv);
relative.addView(edittv);

Answer 2

Some links on the subject:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1211559/android-add-new-view-without-xml-layout

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2693744/android-runtime-layout-tutorial

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/LinearLayout.html