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

I was also facing the same issue, if suppose that particular fragment is inflated across various screens, there is a chance that the visibility modes set inside the if statements to not function according to our needs as the condition might have been reset when it is inflated a number of times in our app.

In my case, I have to change the visibility mode in one fragment(child fragment) based on a button clicked in another fragment(parent fragment). So I stored the buttonClicked boolean value in a variable of parent fragment and passed it as a parameter to a function in the child fragment. So the visibility modes in the child fragments is changed based on that boolean value that is received via parameter. But as this child fragment is inflated across various screens, the visibility modes kept on resetting even if I make it hidden using View.GONE.

In order to avoid this conflict, I declared a static boolean variable in the child fragment and whenever that boolean value is received from the parent fragment I stored it in the static variable and then changed the visibility modes based on that static variable in the child fragment.

That solved the issue for me.