Android: can one alias a layout?

I have two Activities that both list items in a table. For the time being both currently use the same layout and then inflate it at runtime.

However, to cleanly and strictly separate the two and also开发者_开发知识库 allow me to later maybe have slightly different layouts for each, I would like to have two different layout names but simply alias (is that a verb?) one layout to point to the other.

Can that be done? I tried to define an alias id in the strings.xml file but that only yields errors.

Michael

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There is this more straight forward layout aliasing technique as well. You can refer to: https://developer.android.com/training/multiscreen/screensizes.html#TaskUseAliasFilters

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What if you have one of them simply contain nothing but a single <include> element so that it just includes the other one?

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/layout-tricks-merge.html