I'm confused about Custom Views. I have noticed that when I define an Android application this way:


----- Whatever.java -----

public class Whatever extends Activity {

private SecondView mySecondView;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

mySecondView = new SecondView(this.getApplicationContext());
}



----- SecondView.java -----

public class SecondView extends View {

public EditText txt1;

public SecondView(Context context) {
super(context);

// doing text assignment did nothing here.
txt1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.EditText01);

txt1.setWidth(200);

}

}


When I run this or anything like this, the SecondView doesn't do anything. Once I had an onDraw event defined and that did nothing either.

Instead of this line:

mySecondView = new SecondView(this.getApplicationContext());

I've tried this line:

mySecondView = (SecondView) findViewById(R.id.SecondView)

with "SecondView" being defined in the XML file with a tag like the following:

<my.package.SecondView ... ... />

but that seems to cause two problems:

1) The application hangs, causing a Force close situation
2) In the XML Outline editor, there's a Null reference exception where the layout normally appears.


My questions are:

Q1) What's the best way to have an Activity in one java file and a View in another file? Why would you want to? Is this a custom View situation?

Q2) Why is there no way to have the package-qualified Custom View tag in the XML Outline editor? (Currently, you have to type it in source.)

Q3) In which situations would you want to have multiple Custom Views?

I found an answer, right on this forum!

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