SegmentedEditText

SegmentedEditText.java

// SegmentedEditText is horizontal linear layout contains 6 edit texts
public class SegmentedEditText extends LinearLayout {

    public SegmentedEditText(Context context) {
        super(context);
        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
          // have to do next:
          EditText editText = (EditText) inflater.inflate(R.layout.partial_segmented_edittext, this, false);
          addView(editText);
          // instead of this:
          // code below crashes at the runtime, because inflate method returns LinearLayout not EditText
          // I don't need reference for the LinearLayout, since I already have it. It is provided to the method.
          // What I need is reference for the newly inflated EditText to avoid finding it by Id later
          EditText editText = (EditText) inflater.inflate(R.layout.partial_segmented_edittext, this, true);
        }
    }
}

Dude, you can't do this. Just do a simple layout for this :

segmented_edit_text_layout.xml

<LinearLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText android:id="@+id/edit1" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<EditText android:id="@+id/edit2" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<EditText android:id="@+id/edit3" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>

Then on your Activity you set it as your content view :

OnCreate(Bundle args) {
...
setContentView(R.layout.main);
..
}

OR on Fragment

OnCreateView(...) {
return inflater.inflate(R.layout.main,viewParent,false);
}