How to set layout dynamically in android

The best practice is to use fragments instead of change the content view.

In your code, setContentView with layouts recreate (inflate) all your views every time, so the call setContentView(R.layout.layout1) in someBtn2 click listener will create a new button without the associated listener.

If you don’t want to use fragments you can do this:

private View view1, view2;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  view1 = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.layout1, null);
  view2 = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.layout2, null);
  setContentView(view1);

The listeners will be:

someBtn1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        setContentView(view2);
    }
});


someBtn2.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        setContentView(view1);
    }
});