Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom Android control that contains a LinearLayout. You can think of it as an extended LinearLayout with fancy borders, a background, an image on the left...

I could do it all in XML (works great) but since I have dozens of occurences in my app it's getting hard to maintain. I thought it would be nicer to have something like this:

/* Main.xml */
<MyFancyLayout>
    <TextView />   /* what goes inside my control's linear layout */
</MyfancyLayout>

How would you approach this? I'd like to avoid re-writing the whole linear layout onMeasure / onLayout methods. This is what I have for the moment:

/* MyFancyLayout.xml */
<TableLayout>
    <ImageView />
    <LinearLayout id="container" />   /* where I want the real content to go */
</TableLayout>    

and

/* MyFancyLayout.java */
public class MyFancyLayout extends LinearLayout
{
    public MyFancyLayout(Context context) {
        super(context);
        View.inflate(context, R.layout.my_fancy_layout, this);
    }
}

How would you go about inserting the user-specified content (the TextView in main.xml) in the right place (id=container)?

Cheers!

Romain

----- edit -------

Still no luck on this, so I changed my design to use a simpler layout and decided to live with a bit of repeated XML. Still very interested in anyone knows how to do this though!