How do I access the views inside the layout when I reuse it multiple times?

Say you want to include this:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
>
    <ImageView
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3421864/@drawable/some_image"
    />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/included_text_view"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    />
</LinearLayout>

so in your code you insert it like this:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
>
    <include android:id="@+id/header_1" layout="@layout/name_of_layout_xml" />
    <include android:id="@+id/header_2" layout="@layout/name_of_layout_xml" />
</LinearLayout>

now you want to access the text views within the included layouts to set the text dynamically. In your code you simply type:

LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.header_1);
TextView tv = (TextView)ll.findViewById(R.id.included_text_view);
tv.setText("Header Text 1");

ll = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.header_2);
tv = (TextView)ll.findViewById(R.id.included_text_view);
tv.setText("Header Text 2");

notice that you use the individual LinearLayouts’ findViewById methods to narrow the search to only their children.