Dynamically creating Android controls in C#

Question

I'm trying to get to grips with the Monodroid in Visual Studio. Is there a way to use C# to dynamically create multiple controls for an android layout?

I'm used to ASP.NET and so would have thought something like the following would make sense- however with this being XML and not ASP I'm a little stuck.

PlaceHolder PlaceHolder1 = new PlaceHolder();

Label myLabel = new Label();
myLabel.Text = "some text";
myLabel.ID = "label ID";
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Add(myLabel);

etc.

Any suggestions for advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks all.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:45:03Z

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The equivalents for Placeholders are Layouts including:

LinearLayout -default orientation of horizontal
RelativeLayout
GridLayout
FrameLayout

There are plenty of tutorials for how to use these in XML - eg http://www.learn-android.com/2010/01/05/android-layout-tutorial/

And you can also manipulate these in code - using the ViewGroup Methods - http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGroup.html - e.g, using AddView

You'll find plenty of java examples of this and they port very quickly to monodroid - eg create layout through code

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Mattplus Over a year ago

Thank you very much, this is most helpful.

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