title: Inflating a view multiple times in the same parent when a button is clicked
body: <p>My app is about creating surveys. In order to do so, the user should be able to create new fields dynamically.</p>
  
  <p>So, when creating a new survey, an Activity is shown with only 2 buttons (add and delete). When a user clicks the add button, a row appears containing a EditText(so he can write the question), a Spinner(that enables user to select the type of field: text, RadioButton, CheckBox, etc..) and another EditText (in which the different available answer choices are written, if applicable).</p>
  
  <p>To accomplish this I created a XML file containing these Widgets and each time the user clicks in the add button, the XML is inflated. It works the first time I press the button, but after that... nothing happens.</p>
  
  <p>I read somewhere that you cannot inflate the same child 2 times in a parent unless it is done in a loop.</p>
  
  <p>So, my questions are:</p>
  
  <p>-> How can I get around this and obtain the desired effect?</p>
  
  <p>-> Why doesn't this apply in a Loop?</p>
  
  <p>Any help or hint is appreciated. Once again, thank you very much for all the support the community has given me.</p>
  
  <p>NOTE: In the android documentation they speak about cloning an inflator but the information there is scarce and I couldn't find any other info about it.</p>
  
  <p>SOurce code:</p>
  
  <p>XML - Main cointainer:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;RelativeLayout 
      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:orientation="vertical"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"&gt;
  
      &lt;LinearLayout
          android:id="@+id/wrapper"
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      /&gt;
  
      &lt;Button
          android:id="@+id/mds_new_addfield_button"
          android:tag="new"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="Add Field"
          android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
          android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
      /&gt;
      &lt;Button
          android:id="@+id/mds_new_deletefield_button"
          android:tag="delete"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="Delete Field"
          android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
          android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
      /&gt;
  
  &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>XML -Inflated:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;TableLayout 
      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  &gt;
      &lt;TableRow&gt;
          &lt;TextView
              android:id="@+id/mdsnew_field_tv"
              style="@style/dsn_field"
              android:text="Field Name    " 
          /&gt;
  
          &lt;TextView
              android:id="@+id/mdsnew_type_tv"
              style="@style/dsn_field"
              android:text="Type of Field   " 
          /&gt;
  
          &lt;TextView
              android:id="@+id/mdsnew_choices_tv"
              style="@style/dsn_field"
              android:text="Choices"  
          /&gt;
      &lt;/TableRow&gt;
  
      &lt;TableRow&gt;
  
          &lt;EditText
              android:id="@+id/mdsnew_fieldname_et"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:text="Field Name"
              android:textSize="18sp"
          /&gt;
  
          &lt;Spinner
              android:id="@+id/mdsnew_type_sp"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          /&gt;
  
          &lt;EditText
              android:id="@+id/mdsnew_choices_et"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:text="Choices    "
              android:textSize="18sp"
          /&gt;
  
      &lt;/TableRow&gt;
  &lt;/TableLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Add Button:</p>
  
  <pre><code>LinearLayout myRoot = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.wrapper);
  
  LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
  
  inflater.inflate(R.layout.mds_new_row, myRoot);
  </code></pre>