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

Use:

 myButton.hide();
 myClearButton.hide();

A typical example would be:

Hiding and showing buttons when user is typing or has focus on a EditText resource:

check if user is typing or has focus:

 mCommentField.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean hasFocus) {
            if (hasFocus) {
                //user has focused
                showBts();

            } else {
                //focus has stopped perform your desired action
                hideButtons();
            }
        }


    });

Hide and Show button methods:

private void hideButtons() {

    mCommentButton.hide();
    mClearButton.hide();
}

private void showBts() {

    mCommentButton. show();
    mClearButton.show();

And in your xml, set the buttons to invisible by default so that they only display/show when a user has focus or is typing:

android:visibility="invisible"

Best practice:

 android:visibility="Gone"

Using visibility gone means your view is doesn't take up any space on your layout while "invisible" will take up unnecessary space on your layout

In this example:My Views are in a ViewHolder and iam referencing the buttons from a a fragment with a recylerview

Answer 2

This also works:

findViewById(R.id.fab).setVisibility(View.GONE);