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    copied!<p>I'm prototyping an Android application, and am trying to define the UI before writing any Java code. The basic XML layout stuff works fine, but I can't figure out how to add a <code>ListView</code> with contents. Adding the <code>ListView</code> inside a <code>LinearLayout</code> works fine, but I can't add anything (not even another <code>LinearLayout</code>) as the <em>contents</em> of this <code>ListView</code>.</p> <p>I tried the fairly obvious way of doing this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;ListView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="2"&gt; &lt;LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"&gt; &lt;TextView android:text="Line One" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /&gt; &lt;TextView android:text="Line Two" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /&gt; &lt;TextView android:text="Line Three" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /&gt; &lt;/LinearLayout&gt; &lt;/ListView&gt; </code></pre> <p>But it failed (at runtime) with an exception when trying to start the activity:</p> <pre><code>java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: addView(View, LayoutParams) is not supported in AdapterView. </code></pre> <p>The SDK documentation for the XML layout language is fairly poor, and I can't seem to find any obvious way to make this work. What am I missing?</p> <p>Bonus question: is there a way to detect problems in the XML layout at <em>build-time</em>, instead of waiting for Android to throw an exception at runtime?</p>
 

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