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Android Android Lists and Adapters (2015) Lists with RecyclerViews Adding Methods for a RecyclerView Adapter

Posted by Rami Kelesli
Rami Kelesli
Courses Plus Student 4,201 Points

error on inflate?

View view=new View(parent.getContext()) .inflate(R.layout.hourly_list_item ,parent , false);

I get this error:

Error:(26, 17) error: method inflate in class View cannot be applied to given types; required: Context,int,ViewGroup found: int,ViewGroup,boolean reason: actual argument int cannot be converted to Context by method invocation conversion

1 Answer

Danylo Samotys
Danylo Samotys
9,089 Points
Danylo Samotys
Danylo Samotys
9,089 Points

You should use

LayoutInflater.from(viewGroup.getContext())

instead of

new View(parent.getContext())

like this ```View view = LayoutInflater.from(viewGroup.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.hourly_list_item, viewGroup, false);