Clone textview to append it to a ViewGroup

I have a ViewGroup defined in XML with a view inside, at onCreate time I'd like to have a variable of those.
I don't want to go through the hassle of using a listview+adapter cause its clearly overkill as I know the list won't change since onCreate()
This is more or less the code I'd like to have.

TextView mytextview = myViewGroup.findViewById(R.id.mytext);

for(String test : strings){
  mytextview = mytextview.clone();
  mytextview.setText(test);
  myViewGroup.addView(mytextview);
}

But it is not working.