The Android platform is very interesting and presents new challenges to figure out how to do things that I have done many times in the past on other platforms.  One of those things is adding controls (views) to a form (layout of some sort) from Java code without setting the control up first in the XML markup. I am fairly new to the Android environment and don't claim to be an expert.  I am learning as well but figured I would share some of the things I have learned here so other developers can benefit from it. Here is how I did it In order to...

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