Programmatic Views how to set unique id's?

android, uniqueidentifier, view

Solution

Just an addition to the answer of @phantomlimb,

while `View.generateViewId()` require API Level >= 17, this tool is compatibe with all API.

according to current API Level, it decide weather using system API or not.

so you can use `ViewIdGenerator.generateViewId()` and `View.generateViewId()` in the same time and don't worry about getting same id

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.os.Build;
import android.view.View;

/**
 * {@link View#generateViewId()}要求API Level >= 17,而本工具类可兼容所有API Level
 * <p>
 * 自动判断当前API Level,并优先调用{@link View#generateViewId()},即使本工具类与{@link View#generateViewId()}
 * 混用,也能保证生成的Id唯一
 * <p>
 * =============
 * <p>
 * while {@link View#generateViewId()} require API Level >= 17, this tool is compatibe with all API.
 * <p>
 * according to current API Level, it decide weather using system API or not.<br>
 * so you can use {@link ViewIdGenerator#generateViewId()} and {@link View#generateViewId()} in the
 * same time and don't worry about getting same id
 * 
 * @author fantouchx@gmail.com
 */
public class ViewIdGenerator {
    private static final AtomicInteger sNextGeneratedId = new AtomicInteger(1);

    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    public static int generateViewId() {

        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 17) {
            for (;;) {
                final int result = sNextGeneratedId.get();
                // aapt-generated IDs have the high byte nonzero; clamp to the range under that.
                int newValue = result + 1;
                if (newValue > 0x00FFFFFF)
                    newValue = 1; // Roll over to 1, not 0.
                if (sNextGeneratedId.compareAndSet(result, newValue)) {
                    return result;
                }
            }
        } else {
            return View.generateViewId();
        }

    }
}

Problem

I am creating in my app bunch of programmatic `View`s. As it appeared to be they all by default have the same `id=-1`. In order to work with them I need to generate unique id's. I have tried several approaches - random number generation and based on current time, but anyway there's no 100% guarantee that different Views will have different id's Just wondering is there any more reliable way to generate unique ones? Probably there's special method/class?

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