android:visibility changes to children of MotionLayout

Question

I must be missing something with android:visibility changes within a motion layout. Here’s a simplified version of my layout.

Answer 1

Turns out this was my inexperience with how MotionLayout works. By default MotionLayout controls the visibility of all views within it. But you can opt out child views by using the app:visibilityMode="ignore" attribute and defining the view in the

In my case looks like this...

And this is defined the same in both collasped and expended ConstraintSets as I don't want it to move/animation when the recycler view is scrolled.

Thanks to John Hoford for the advice in another channel.