Reusable Views?

I'm new to Android development, but I have quite some bit of Swing/WPF(C#) GUI experience. What I'm trying to do is the following: I have a BottomNavigationView with 3 separate vie

Solution 1:

You will have to define a separate XML layout for a View that you will use more than once and

In XML

You will use the <include> Tag inside your layout like

 ...
<include layout="@layout/your_frequent_used_layout"/>

<TextView android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="@string/hello"
          android:padding="10dp" />
....

More information here in the documentation training!

In Java

For Java side If you want to get a certain view and add to your current layout you will need a layout Inflater and then add to your View like this in your activity (In your fragment consider contexts if it throws any errors)

1st Option:

View view = null;
LayoutInflater inflater = 
(LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); 
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.your_reusable_view, null);
your_main_root_view.addView(view);

2nd Option:

View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.your_reusable_view, null);
your_main_root_view.addView(child);

Solution 2:

As per your code in the question, you are just showing/hiding the views present in the layout.
So, firstly I would suggest using BottomNavigationView in conjunction with a ViewPager and creating independent Fragments for every navigation item.
This article demonstrates how to get started
http://droidmentor.com/bottomnavigationview-with-viewpager-android/

Secondly, for all the fragments that contain common items, you will create an abstract BaseFragment that will manage all the common logic.
Extend this abstract fragment to create your individual fragments and Inflate the unique layouts.

fragment_base.xml

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <!--- Your Common Elements Here --->

    <!--- Unique Elements will get inserted here --->

</LinearLayout>

fragment_nav_unique1.xml

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <!--- Unique Elements For the Nav View Item --->

</LinearLayout>

BaseFragment.java

public abstract class BaseFragment extends Fragment {

    // Get Layout resource id of the Individual Fragments
    protected abstract int layoutResourceId();

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // Inflate the base layout
        LinearLayout view = (LinearLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_base, container, false);

        // Inflate the unique layouts and add them to the view    
        LinearLayout uniqueView = (LinearLayout) inflater.inflate(layoutResourceId(), null);
        view.addView(uniqueView);

        // Return view
        return view;
    }

    //--- Manage all the Common Elements here ---

}

FirstFragment.java

public class FirstFragment extends BaseFragment {
    @Override
    protected int layoutResourceId() {
        // Return the resource of the unique layout
        return R.layout.fragment_nav_unique1;
    }

    //--- Manage all the Unique Elements here ---

}

Solution 3:

Using CustomView is the way to go for this. Not only you can use the same layout file in this but can also define similar interactions with this view in your custom view implementation.