Kotlin Programming Cookbook

How to do it…

In the following steps, we will learn how to insert an XML layout into a DSL layout:

1. To include an XML layout in a DSL, we use the include() method. We can add view properties to the view created using the include() method by simply adding {} and defining our view properties inside it. We can also add layout parameters to the view, just as we do it in DSL views. Check out the syntax given here:

include<View>(R.layout.layoutName) {    id = R.id.someId    hint = "Some hint"    text = "Some text"}.lparams() {}

2. Let's create a layout in XML, which we will then include in our DSL layout. Let's create a button in a linear layout and save it in a file called test.xml. Check out the following code for the layout that we will save in text.xml ...