关于LayoutInflate详细解释

今天在项目中用到了LayoutInflate，出现了一些问题，才知道自己对LayoutInflate并不是真正的了解，我所知道的只是用它去加载一个新的布局，其他的就不知道了，LayoutInflate的作用远不止于此

LayoutInflate有四种调用方式

<span style="white-space:pre">	</span>public View inflate(int resource, ViewGroup root)
public View inflate(int resource, ViewGroup root, boolean attachToRoot)
public View inflate(XmlPullParser parser, ViewGroup root)
public View inflate(XmlPullParser parser, ViewGroup root, boolean attachToRoot)

我们平时用的最多的就是第一种，把xml文件转化为view用来加载一个新的布局，如果你在一个activity中想如外再加载一个布局，是没有任何问题的，如果你自定义一个view，比如LineLayout、FrameLayout等等，在类里面加载一个布局用第一种方法的话就会出错，

下面从源码的角度进行分析

public View inflate(XmlPullParser parser, ViewGroup root, boolean attachToRoot) {
synchronized (mConstructorArgs) {
Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_VIEW, "inflate");

final AttributeSet attrs = Xml.asAttributeSet(parser);
Context lastContext = (Context)mConstructorArgs[0];
mConstructorArgs[0] = mContext;
View result = root;

try {
// Look for the root node.
int type;
while ((type = parser.next()) != XmlPullParser.START_TAG &&
type != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
// Empty
}

if (type != XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
throw new InflateException(parser.getPositionDescription()
+ ": No start tag found!");
}

final String name = parser.getName();

if (DEBUG) {
System.out.println("**************************");
System.out.println("Creating root view: "
+ name);
System.out.println("**************************");
}

if (TAG_MERGE.equals(name)) {
if (root == null || !attachToRoot) {
throw new InflateException("<merge /> can be used only with a valid "
+ "ViewGroup root and attachToRoot=true");
}

rInflate(parser, root, attrs, false, false);
} else {
// Temp is the root view that was found in the xml
final View temp = createViewFromTag(root, name, attrs, false);

ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = null;

if (root != null) {
if (DEBUG) {
System.out.println("Creating params from root: " +
root);
}
// Create layout params that match root, if supplied
params = root.generateLayoutParams(attrs);
if (!attachToRoot) {
// Set the layout params for temp if we are not
// attaching. (If we are, we use addView, below)
temp.setLayoutParams(params);
}
}

if (DEBUG) {
System.out.println("-----> start inflating children");
}
// Inflate all children under temp
rInflate(parser, temp, attrs, true, true);
if (DEBUG) {
System.out.println("-----> done inflating children");
}

// We are supposed to attach all the views we found (int temp)
// to root. Do that now.
if (root != null && attachToRoot) {
root.addView(temp, params);
}

// Decide whether to return the root that was passed in or the
// top view found in xml.
if (root == null || !attachToRoot) {
result = temp;
}
}

} catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
InflateException ex = new InflateException(e.getMessage());
ex.initCause(e);
throw ex;
} catch (IOException e) {
InflateException ex = new InflateException(
parser.getPositionDescription()
+ ": " + e.getMessage());
ex.initCause(e);
throw ex;
} finally {
// Don't retain static reference on context.
mConstructorArgs[0] = lastContext;
mConstructorArgs[1] = null;
}

Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_VIEW);

return result;
}
}

源码有点长，我们只看关键的几行代码即可

<span style="white-space:pre">		</span>if (root != null) {
if (DEBUG) {
System.out.println("Creating params from root: " +
root);
}
// Create layout params that match root, if supplied
params = root.generateLayoutParams(attrs);
if (!attachToRoot) {
// Set the layout params for temp if we are not
// attaching. (If we are, we use addView, below)
temp.setLayoutParams(params);
}
}

当root不等于null和attachToRoot为false的时候，才会返回视图。