Android Custom Compound Views

The intention is to create a compound view which actually displays a background image with 2 buttons 

This is accomplished by writing a class and subclassing it with Layout class and loading the layout xml with layout inflator.

like below. 

public class WeatherView extends LinearLayout {

    private View mValue;

    private ImageView mImage;

    

    public WeatherView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {

        super(context, attrs);

        setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);

        setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);

        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

        inflater.inflate(R.layout.weather_view_layout, this, true);

    }

    

    public WeatherView(Context context) {

        this(context, null);

    }

    

}

The complete files with layout XML, layout subclass and Activity layout xml can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0ZgwdHsnw1baTBuNngtdGk5Rnc/view?usp=sharing

references

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/android/android_custom_components.htm