Is possible in Android to findView by String Id?
I add some rows in table programmatically and in next iteration need to remove some of them and I have List id ( "tblRow_1", "tblRow_3" ..}). Can I retrieve by ids from the list?
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Use getResources().getIdentifier() to retrieve the actual integer resource ID.
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int resID = getResources().getIdentifier(stringVar, "id", "com.sample.project");
view = findViewById(resID);
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1@Damir: Yup. Doable as shown above, but slow, and usually bad practice. There's usually a better software design that will let you avoid doing this sort of thing. – Kevin Coppock Aug 10 '11 at 18:42
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1@kcoppock as is most types of reflection.. :) – jondavidjohn Aug 10 '11 at 18:43
