FloatingActionButton doesn't hide

Question

I am trying to hide my FloatingActionButton fabLocation programmatically with :

fabLocation.setVisibility(View.GONE)

but it do

Answer 1

FloatingActionButton layers = (FloatingActionButton) findViewById(R.id.layers);
layers.hide();

It works for me, setVisibility doesn't work for FloatingActionButton as it belongs to another viewGroup that doesn't have setVisibility method.