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How to inflate an xml see my previous post . Suppose we have button in the inflated xml we can get the id like this: Button b1= (Button) v1.findViewById(R.id.button1); //where v1 is the View

RelativeLayout mainLayout = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.relative); //create a view to inflate the layout_item ( the xml with the textView created before) View view = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.inflate,mainLayout,false); //add the view to the main layout mainLayout.addView(view);