xml生成view原理

项目中我们经常使用以下代码把布局文件转换成view

View view = View.inflate(context,layout,null);
View view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(layout, null);

下面我们简单来看看布局生成view的原理
我们以解析下面这个布局为例:

以上两种方法都会走到这个方法:

 public View inflate(@LayoutRes int resource, @Nullable ViewGroup root, boolean attachToRoot) {
        final Resources res = getContext().getResources();
        //生成xml解析器
        final XmlResourceParser parser = res.getLayout(resource);
        try {
            //接着看这个方法
            return inflate(parser, root, attachToRoot);
        } finally {
            parser.close();
        }
    }

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

            final Context inflaterContext = mContext;
            //获取布局的属性集合
            final AttributeSet attrs = Xml.asAttributeSet(parser);
            Context lastContext = (Context) mConstructorArgs[0];
            mConstructorArgs[0] = inflaterContext;
            View result = root;

            try {
                // Look for the root node.
                int type;
                //这个name就是布局的根的名称,在这里就是LinearLayout
                final String name = parser.getName();

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

                    rInflate(parser, root, inflaterContext, attrs, false);
                } else {
                    // Temp is the root view that was found in the xml
                    //然后走到这里,我们把布局的名称和属性传递进去,就会返回一个view
                    final View temp = createViewFromTag(root, name, inflaterContext, attrs);

                    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 against its context.
                    //解析这个布局所有的子布局,也就是LinearLayout里面所有的xml,在这里就是Textview,用到的方法也是createViewFromTag()
                    rInflateChildren(parser, temp, attrs, 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;
                    }
                }

            } 
            ...

            return result;
        }
    }

从以上分析中,xml生成view的关键方法就是createViewFromTag(),简单说这个方法经过一系列调用最终通过反射的方法生成了View