How to change visibility of layout programmatically

Question

There is the way to change visibility of View, but how can I change programmatically visibility of layout defined in XML? How to get layout object?

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/contacts_type"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:visibility="gone">
</LinearLayout>

aioobe · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-05T15:08:57.687

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Have a look at View.setVisibility(View.GONE / View.VISIBLE / View.INVISIBLE).

From the API docs:

public void setVisibility(int visibility)

    Since: API Level 1

    Set the enabled state of this view.
    Related XML Attributes: android:visibility

Parameters:
visibility     One of VISIBLE, INVISIBLE, or GONE.

Note that LinearLayout is a ViewGroup which in turn is a View. That is, you may very well call, for instance, myLinearLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE).

This makes sense. If you have any experience with AWT/Swing, you'll recognize it from the relation between Container and Component. (A Container is a Component.)

edited Feb 05 '11 at 15:08

answered Aug 12 '10 at 08:18

aioobe

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I'm asking about LAYOUT not VIEW. – Dariusz Bacinski Aug 12 '10 at 08:24
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LinearLayout inherits from a View so this should work http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/LinearLayout.html – ccheneson Aug 12 '10 at 08:28
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score 15 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '13 at 23:10

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TextView view = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
view.setText("Add your text here");
view.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

edited Jun 12 '13 at 23:10

Musa

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answered Jun 12 '13 at 22:40

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score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 07 '19 at 21:38

Use this Layout in your xml file

<LinearLayout
  android:id="@+id/contacts_type"
  android:orientation="horizontal"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:visibility="gone">
</LinearLayout>

Define your layout in .class file

 LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.contacts_type);

Now if you want to display this layout just write

 linearLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

and if you want to hide layout just write

 linearLayout.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 12 '10 at 08:27

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You can change layout visibility just in the same way as for regular view. Use setVisibility(View.GONE) etc. All layouts are just Views, they have View as their parent.

answered Aug 12 '10 at 08:27

Konstantin Burov

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited May 25 '20 at 04:19

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this is a programatical approach:

 view.setVisibility(View.GONE); //For GONE
 view.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); //For INVISIBLE
 view.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); //For VISIBLE

edited May 25 '20 at 04:19

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answered Sep 07 '18 at 06:41

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How to change visibility of layout programmatically

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