Android: why setVisibility(View.GONE); or setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); do not work

Question

I want my DatePicker and the button to be invisible in the begining. And when I press my magic button I want to setVisibility(View.Visible);

The problem

Answer 1

You can think it as a CSS style visibility & display.

    This is View.VISIBLE : Content is displayed normally.



    This is View.INVISIBLE : Content is not displayed, but div still takes up place, but empty.



    This is View.GONE : Container div is not shown, you can say the content is not displayed.