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?

Answer 1

Use this Layout in your xml file

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);