Android API with custom view ids

Question

For things like embedded Android ListView

, you can reference IDs in XML by doingandroid:id="@android:id/text1"

Let's say I have an external library called MyDomain

in which I have some useful linking APIs.

In my main application, I would like to do something like android:id="@mydomain:id/someTextId"

.

How can i do this?

I am using Android Studio Beta 0.8.6 and (for now) have the library as a module if it matters

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Jakar 20 Aug 14 at 2:42

2 answers

I'm not sure I understand what you exactly want to do ...

You can share your library component with your application. The application layout will be something like this:

<com.my.domain.MyComponent
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  ...
/>

You can also define custom properties for your component directly in the layout by adding an XML namespace, for example:

xmlns:md="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.my.domain.MyComponent"

And then you can use the type property md:my_property="42"

.

+1

metch 27 Aug 14 at 8:56

eduyayo · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-28T19:06:49+0000

This post has a good explanation of How to reference a string from another package in a library using XML in Android? by the meaning "package" is there and why you can't use it like that unless you are using shared libraries