SetContentView都做了什么

在Activity的onCreate方法中，可以调用setContentView(layout_id)，来设置这个Activity的视图。那么setContentView都做了些什么呢？

以下一个简单的Activity的代码：

public class ViewDemoActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        super.setContentView(R.layout.view_demo);
    }
}

查看父类Activity的setContentView方法:

public void setContentView(int layoutResID) {
    getWindow().setContentView(layoutResID);
    ...
}

这个getWindow()指向哪里呢？我们可以在onCreate中打个log:

D/ViewDemoActivity(3969): com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow

原来是PhoneWindow，来看看它的setContentView方法：

@Override
    public void setContentView(int layoutResID) {
        // 1
        if (mContentParent == null) {
            installDecor();
        } else {
            mContentParent.removeAllViews();
        }

        // 2
        mLayoutInflater.inflate(layoutResID, mContentParent);

        // 3
        final Callback cb = getCallback();
        if (cb != null && !isDestroyed()) {
            cb.onContentChanged();
        }

这大体可以分为三个步骤：

第一步：判断父容器是否为空

为空：生成Decor
不为空：删除 contentParent 所有的子控件。

第二步：解析layoutResID所代表的xml文件

LayoutInflater.inflate(...)方法的代码如下：

public View inflate(int resource, ViewGroup root) {
        return inflate(resource, root, root != null);
    }

    public View inflate(int resource, ViewGroup root, boolean attachToRoot) {
        XmlResourceParser parser = getContext().getResources().getLayout(resource);
        try {
            return inflate(parser, root, attachToRoot);
        } finally {
            parser.close();
        }
    }

    public View inflate(XmlPullParser parser, ViewGroup root, boolean attachToRoot) {
        synchronized (mConstructorArgs) {
            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();

                // 根标签为merge时，root不能为空
                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, attrs, false);
                } else {
                    // Temp is the root view that was found in the xml
                    View temp;
                    if (TAG_1995.equals(name)) {
                        temp = new BlinkLayout(mContext, attrs);
                    } else {
                        temp = createViewFromTag(root, name, attrs);
                    }

                    ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = null;

                    if (root != null) {
                        // 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);
                        }
                    }

                    // 解析temp的所有子View
                    rInflate(parser, temp, attrs, true);

                    // 将temp添加到root中
                    if (root != null && attachToRoot) {
                        root.addView(temp, params);
                    }

                    // 如果未指定root或者不附加到root，则返回xml所代表的view;
                    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;
            }
            return result;
        }
    }

inflate(...)最终会调用rInflate(...)：

void rInflate(XmlPullParser parser, View parent, final AttributeSet attrs,
            boolean finishInflate) throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
        final int depth = parser.getDepth();
        int type;

        while (((type = parser.next()) != XmlPullParser.END_TAG ||
                parser.getDepth() > depth) && type != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {

            if (type != XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
                continue;
            }

            final String name = parser.getName();

            if (TAG_REQUEST_FOCUS.equals(name)) {
                parseRequestFocus(parser, parent);
            } else if (TAG_INCLUDE.equals(name)) {
                if (parser.getDepth() == 0) {
                    throw new InflateException(" cannot be the root element");
                }
                parseInclude(parser, parent, attrs);
            } else if (TAG_MERGE.equals(name)) {
                throw new InflateException(" must be the root element");
            } else if (TAG_1995.equals(name)) {
                final View view = new BlinkLayout(mContext, attrs);
                final ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) parent;
                final ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = viewGroup.generateLayoutParams(attrs);
                rInflate(parser, view, attrs, true);
                viewGroup.addView(view, params);                
            } else {
                final View view = createViewFromTag(parent, name, attrs);
                final ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) parent;
                final ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = viewGroup.generateLayoutParams(attrs);
                rInflate(parser, view, attrs, true);
                viewGroup.addView(view, params);
            }
        }

        if (finishInflate) parent.onFinishInflate();
    }

rInflate(...)先特殊处理了几个xml标签，然后在else分支，会递归调用rInflate(...)，将xml的子控件添加到parent中，生成完整的contentView。

看了这里，同学们就会明白，为什么不建议在布局文件中做过多地View嵌套了吧，层层递归！

第三步：通知Callback，ContentView发生改变

这个getCallback()是什么？打个Log看看：

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        super.setContentView(R.layout.view_demo);
        Log.d("ViewDemo", getWindow().getCallback().toString());
    }

输出结果为：

D/ViewDemoActivity( 7228): cn.erhu.android.view.ViewDemoActivity@6562f2c0

原来它就是DemoActivity!

在Activity.java的attach()方法中：

final void attach(...) {
        ...
        mWindow = PolicyManager.makeNewWindow(this);
        mWindow.setCallback(this);
        ...
    }

原来PhoneWindow的callback就是Activity，并且Activity的onContentChanged()方法是空的，所以我们可以在自己的Activity中重写这个方法，来监听ContentView发生改变的事件。