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Call to getLayoutInflater() in places not in activity

You can use this outside activities – all you need is to provide a Context: Then to retrieve your different widgets, you inflate a layout: EDIT as of July 2014 Davide’s answer on how to get the LayoutInflater is actually more correct than mine (which is still valid though).

How to inflate one view with a layout

I’m not sure I have followed your question- are you trying to attach a child view to the RelativeLayout? If so you want to do something along the lines of:

Avoid passing null as the view root (need to resolve layout parameters on the inflated layout’s root element)

Instead of doing do It will inflate it with the given parent, but won’t attach it to the parent.