Android get layout parent id

I would like to know what is the difference between View and ViewParent ?

A View is a class and a ViewParent is an interface.

Although many of the common layout classes implement the ViewParent interface it isn't guaranteed.

The problem you're having is that the myImageView.getParent() is returning a ViewParent which doesn't directly expose a getId() method.

As others have said, casting the ViewParent to a View using...

((View) myImageView.getParent()).getId();

...should work at compile time but be aware of the following...

If the parent View doesn't implement the ViewParent interface then the cast will fail.
The parent View must have a resource id defined in the layout file as (for example) android:id=@+id/myParentViewId or the call to getId will return null

You have to cast your parent view to a View, so you can use getId() method, using ((View) myImageView.getParent()).getId()

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