android view.getid,android view.getId() returns -1

I need to change the text for a range of header cells in the data table.

In order to achieve that, I would need to retrieve and store the view ids assigned to those cells, so they can be used later to identify those cell views.

However, when I try to get an ID for the just inflated cell view, it always returns -1.

Here is my sample code:

@Override

public View getView(final int row, final int column, View converView, ViewGroup parent) {

if (converView == null) {

converView = inflater.inflate(getLayoutResource(row, column), parent, false);

if (row == -1){

int viewId = converView.getId();

setHeaderId(viewId, column+1);

}

}

...

}

The converView.getId() in the code above returns -1, despite the fact that the view id has already been assigned and is viewable during the code debugging. For example, I can see the following during debug:

converView= LinearLayout (id= 830042440680)

Any idea why I am getting -1 (= NO_ID) in the above code ?