title: How do I clone a View?
body: <p>My question is almost exactly this question:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3900044/clone-textview-to-append-it-to-a-viewgroup">Clone textview to append it to a ViewGroup</a></p>
  
  <p>However, I was inflating a view, and then attempting to clone it at the object level for performance reasons (I don't want to parse XML every single time), so that answer doesn't help me. View.clone() is protected and it apparently doesn't have a copy constructor. Is there any way to do this?</p>