Why Is My Included Layout's Tag Returning Null?

Using the below layouts, getView(R.id.included).getView(R.id.text_view) evaluates to null. If I surround the TextView in a LinearLayout the problem disappears. What's going on he

Solution 1:

<include> isn't exactly well documented.

Tor Norbye wrote:

The <include> tag is not a real view, so findByView will not find it. The @id attribute (and any other attributes you've set on the include tag) gets applied on the root tag of the included layout instead. So your activity.getView(R.id.included1) should in fact be the <TextView> itself.