title: Creating a Clone of a View in Android
body: <p>Is there any way that a View can be cloned in Android?  I have a reference to a complicated view which was first inflated from a layout, and then throughout the lifetime of the app was programatically edited, adding subviews, removing views etc.</p>
  
  <p>I need some way to clone this view object.  At this point in time in the app, there isn't enough information available for me to re-inflate the layout and apply all of the view modifications to it programatically to get it to match the original view.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>