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Android Styles and Themes in Android Using Styles in Layouts Including One Layout in Another

samllanwarne
samllanwarne
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Posted by samllanwarne
samllanwarne
3,849 Points

Can someone explain the "include" bit as I couldn't see how it linked two .xml files, or what it actually linked across?

I am most confused on the how to apply it and what it actually does as he only actually talks about it for about 10 seconds. The ordering confused me, but what I make of it is that the "activity_song_playback.xml" now includes all of the styling and xml code from the playback_controls.xml file?

Beginner but also very curious

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/including-one-layout-in-another.

1 Answer

Boban Talevski
Boban Talevski
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Boban Talevski
Boban Talevski
24,793 Points

The include thing seems to not be related to styles and themes as he points out, so I wouldn't bother with understanding the part about how themes and styles behave along with include tags (at least I didn't so far). And you seem to have it figured out mostly as it's just what you are saying:

At the spot of the include tag in activity_song_playback.xml, imagine copy pasting the contents of the playback_controls.xml file and there you have it. The include is just saying at this spot, use the code in the layout file I'm pointing to with the first line

layout="@layout/playback_controls"

The way I see it, It's a feature to keep the code a bit more organized and prevent code duplication if you need to use those same playback controls in another layout. So instead of copy pasting the whole content of playback_controls.xml in multiple layout files, you just make use of the include tag to add it each time.