Inflate A Layout Inside Other Layout's Linearlayout

I've got this Layout: ComposeView http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2121/d6zp.png The 2 borders (left,right )are filled by icons. When I touch one of these icons I access to other

Solution 1:

Hey use the following structure. put. include your common layout in each and every activity layout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><RelativeLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:orientation="vertical" ><!-- Show top black custom title bar--><includeandroid:id="@+id/ll_top"layout="@layout/custom_tittlebar"android:layout_alignParentTop="true"android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" ></include><includeandroid:id="@+id/ll_left"layout="@layout/custom_left"android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"android:layout_centerVertical="true" ></include><includeandroid:id="@+id/ll_right"layout="@layout/custom_right"android:layout_alignParentRight="true"android:layout_centerVertical="true" ></include><Buttonandroid:id="@+id/btn_center"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:text="center"android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/ll_left"android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"android:layout_below="@+id/ll_top"
    ></Button></RelativeLayout>

Solution 2:

You can have one main activity like BaseActivity that is extended by FragmentActivity. Base activity extends SlidingFragmentActivity and implements basic structure like menu etc. FragmentActivity onCreate method is :

@Override

publicvoidonCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

                      fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
                      //This is main content that is switchable
                      mContent = newMainListActivity();  


                       //Additionally you can define those two lines as fragments and add them as default on both sides :
                      sideFragments = newsideFragments(this); 
                      FragmentTransactionft= fm.beginTransaction();
                      ft.replace(R.id.content_frame, mContent);
                      ft.replace(R.id.side_framgments, sideFragments);
                      ft.commit();
                  }

When you press some of those buttons from your menu(left and right border) you will change the fragment in middle of the screen with this function in FragmentActivity :

publicvoidswitchContent(Fragment fragment, String tag) {
        mContent = fragment;
        getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(R.id.content_frame,fragment).addToBackStack(tag).commit(); 


  }

Note R.id.content_frame is the XML that is switchable between those two lines (let say menus on both sides) and R.id.side_framgments are those two lines in between the main layout that is switchable.