Component to add arbitrary number of input fields?

I apologize if I'm just missing the obvious. I'm fairly new to Android development, and while I searched for this particular topic, I wasn't exactly sure what to look for (in terms of a "name").

In an application I'm writing, I have a section where the user can enter the names of players. However, this can range anywhere from 1 to whatever, no limit. However, I'm not sure what the best approach for this kind of feature is, or if there's a component that already does something like it.

Basically, the functionality I'm looking for is similar to what you can see in the Edit Contact screen of the phone book; for the phone numbers and email addresses, you can push a little plus button to add a new number/address, or hit the little minus button to remove a number/address.

I can think of several ways to potentially implement this, but in the end I think wrapping it in a开发者_运维百科 custom component would be best (so that you could call "Get Players" and have it return a list of strings by going through each of the inputs and getting the values).

Am I just overthinking this? Is there a component that does that already? Is there some example code that demonstrates a good way to do this?

Thanks!

Could you just use ListView and add a menu with a "Add Players" option? You could customize the list view to have a little checkbox, for example, and then begin the game by pressing the menu ... or add new players dynamically by pressing another menu button.

After playing around with some ideas, I came across a solution that I think will suit what I'm doing. I created a custom component extending LinearLayout. As part of the creation of the component, it creates a row that says "Add new..." with a plus-sign button. Pressing the plus sign button then creates a new row containing an EditText and a minus-button which will remove the row.

I then created a method for this component called getTexts() which returns a List that has all the non-empty Text values from all the components. Testing it in a dummy app, it seemed to work fine.

I think I need to make tweaks to make it more robust (like the ability to add rows programatically, listeners to alert other components when a row is added/removed, and the ability to set the individual EditText values, for instance), but this functions as I imagined.