[android-developers] Re: Passing a LinearLayout from one Activity to another

2010-03-01 Thread Zigurd
When I wrote "I'm sure you are starting to see that what you thought of doing was made intentionally difficult" I was referring the fact that when you create an instance of LinearLayout, or any other class in the View hierarchy, you have to specify a Context (an abstract class) in the constructor o

Re: [android-developers] Re: Passing a LinearLayout from one Activity to another

2010-03-01 Thread Aniruddh Bajirao
@Zigurd: Using Intents is fine and I'm using that as well. But my question was more about creating a LinearLayout and adding child views to it outside an Activity (like in a regular Java class) and then spawning an Android Activity based on certain parameters (say some parameters derived from a ser

[android-developers] Re: Passing a LinearLayout from one Activity to another

2010-03-01 Thread Zigurd
I'm sure you are starting to see that what you thought of doing was made intentionally difficult. The reason is that, if you do it right, taking the code for an activity and moving it to another application is easy. It's part of Android's modularity. The data you pass using an Intent object, and "

Re: [android-developers] Re: Passing a LinearLayout from one Activity to another

2010-02-28 Thread Aniruddh Bajirao
If I were to have one class(java non Android but within the same Application) create a LinearLayout dynamically consisting of 'n' views And then let us say we want to spawn a new Activity with this LinearLayout in it then how would we do this. Is there a good approach for this? I do realize th

Re: [android-developers] Re: Passing a LinearLayout from one Activity to another

2010-02-28 Thread Aniruddh Bajirao
Thanks a lot. I just wanted to know if such things are possible and shud it be done. I was havin a discussion on Intents and someone raised this question. After thinking about it for a while and trying it out (obviously it didn't work), I thought I'd ask for help on the forum. What we were trying

[android-developers] Re: Passing a LinearLayout from one Activity to another

2010-02-28 Thread Zigurd
Can you clarify what you are trying to do? It's hard to see why you want to do what you are asking about. If you are trying to display the same information, from the same data model, in two identical-looking views in two different activities, you should create a class that extends AdapterView if y