Android P visibilityawareimagebutton.setVisibility can only be called from the same library group

Question

I\'m trying to use the new Android P FloatingActionButton that\'s part of the com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.FloatingActionButton and I\'m get

Answer 1

Seems to work fine just to cast it to a view.

(mFloatingActionButton as View).visibility = INVISIBLE

Of course you need to remember that the visibility may affect other components, so you should probably use show() and hide() at the same time to make sure other components are notified of the change.