How to dynamically create a view and add on main view in android?

Question

I am newbie to android (on mac using eclipse). Please let me know how to create a view dynamically and add it to main view.

Context:

Actually I want to show a view of processing on the main screen when user has performed any action.

satur9nine · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-31 07:56:08Z

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Assuming that your main view is a ViewGroup and you already have an instance of it the code would look something like this:

TextView textView = new TextView(getContext());
textView.setText("Processing...");
mainView.addView(textView);

answered Dec 31, 2010 at 7:56

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