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How can we hide include layout programmatically in Android?

I have to include one layout in my application. So that I have used
<include
android:id="#+id/support_layout"
android:width="match_parent"
android:height="match_parent"
layout="#layout/support"/>
I have referenced this include tag in my java file using View.
View v = (View) findViewById(R.id.support_layout);
But at some point of my code I have to Hide this layout.
so that I used v.GONE
But it's not Hiding.
I want to reference those text and button attributes located in XML programatically.
How can I do that?
There is my support.xml:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/support_layout"
android:width="match_parent"
android:height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt"
android:width="match_parent"
android:height="wrap_content"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn"
android:width="match_parent"
android:height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button"/>
</LinearLayout>

Since <include/> is not a View type in android and visibility is the property of View, we can not access the visibility from included layout's reference.
However if you are using kotlin with view binding, we can get the reference of root of the included layout like binding.supportLayout.root which probably will be one of the View (ConstraintLayout, RelativeLayout, LinearLayout etc.)
Now we have reference of view means we can play with their visibility like below code.
binding.supportLayout.root.visibility = View.GONE
Hope you got the idea.

We need to see your actual implementation of hiding that View you mentioned.
But, straight from reading of your question, I presume that you've might do it the wrong way.
To hide or make a view invisible, use this:
yourView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
Bear in mind that this does not remove the view compeletly; it would still remain in your layout and you could get a reference to it or even try to manipulate it.
To remove it compeletly, use this instead:
yourView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
Now if you call this, yourView would be compeletly removed from the layout. You will no longer able to get a reference to it.

Put that view into a linearlayout and hide the linearlayout. It will work.
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/support_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<include
layout="#layout/support"
android:height="match_parent"
android:width="match_parent" /> </LinearLayout>
And don't forget writing Linearlayout instead of View.
Briefly, instead of
View v = (View) findViewById(R.id.support_layout);
Do this
LinearLayout v = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.support_layout);

You can hide this "included" layout with calling setVisibility() :
v.setVisibility(View.GONE)
and show it later with calling :
v.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE)
To reference button and textview from support layout you can use findViewById method on your included View (I'm not sure but I think it's even not mandatory, you can call it directly on your activity's view) :
View supportLayout = (View) findViewById(R.id.support_layout);
Textview txv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txt);
Button btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn);
(if it's not working try with : Button btn = (Button) supportLayout.findViewById(R.id.btn);)
-- FYI --
When you give attributs to include tags it override ones of the included layout (there support_layout LinearLayout) so you don't need to do that

you must use like this includedLayoutId.viewId.visibility = View.GONE in this case you can access to included view, now for example:
loading.xml
<com.airbnb.lottie.LottieAnimationView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/loading"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:lottie_autoPlay="true"
app:lottie_fileName="loading.json"
app:lottie_loop="true" />
in fragment_a.xml :
<include layout="#layout/loading"
android:id="#+id/anim_loading"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/_80sdp"/>
and finally use it animLoading.loading.visibility = View.GONE

Thanks to the new ConstraintLayout.
This is how I do it with widget.Group
<include
android:id="#+id/bottom_bar_action"
layout="#layout/bottom_bar_back_action"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent" />
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.Group
android:id="#+id/bottom_bar_group"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
app:constraint_referenced_ids="bottom_bar_action" />
Then you can hide the include layout by doing binding.bottomBarGroup.visibility = View.GONE. Cheers

// 1 - copy this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context=".Add">
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="gone"
android:onClick="onclick_gone_include"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="visible"
android:onClick="onclick_visible_include"/>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/support_layout"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
>
<include
layout="#layout/support"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
//code
//2 copy this to Add cliass
//this methods on click in Add class
public void onclick_gone_include(View view) {
View v = (View) findViewById(R.id.support_layout);//view is the v
v.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
public void onclick_visible_include(View view) {
View v = (View) findViewById(R.id.support_layout);
v.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
//3 activity that included 'support activity'
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
tools:context=".Add"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="textview1"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="textview2"
/>
</LinearLayout>

Why does my fragment fill the screen qua height? - Android

I've got a layout like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/wrapper"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background">
<fragment
android:id="#+id/fragment_header"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
class="<headerClass>"/>
<fragment
android:id="#+id/fragment_body"
android:layout_below="#id/fragment_header"
android:layout_above="#+id/fragment_banner"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
class="<bodyClass>"/>
<fragment
android:id="#id/fragment_banner"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
class="<BannerClass>"/>
</RelativeLayout>
Notice that the first fragment has "wrap_content" as param for the layout_height.
This fragment is defined qua layout as:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/headerWrapper"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:background="#drawable/header_background">
// stuff here...
</RelativeLayout>
As you can see the height is set to 40dp.
Yet, the header takes the full height of the screen. I am not sure why. I was looking at the layoutInflater class, but since I am unfamiliar with it I cannot see any problems with that. I use this line to inflate my fragment:
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_header, container, false);
Why is it showing this behavior and how can I fix it?

I've managed to fix it by putting every fragment in its own LinearLayout and giving the first a height of 40dp. I don't think this is the best solution, but it's all I could come up with.

Elements inside RelativeLayout not showing up

I am trying to design a 3D page curl.
In my mainActivity, I have a viewPager which contains pages to be curled. For each page I have a separate layout file.
In the layout file if i just add a text view like below it is showing up fine:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
style="#style/PageTitle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/green"
android:text="VIEW 1" /> -->
But if I wrap the textview inside relative layout, it just shows a white blank screen and textview is not shown.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".DemoActivity" >
<TextView
style="#style/PageTitle"
android:id="#+id/sampletextview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="VIEW 1" />
</RelativeLayout>
Can someone please help me to know why i am not able to use relative layout in my view layout file:
I inflate the view like this:
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) myAppContext.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View view1 = inflater.inflate(mViewIds[0], null);

Try changing the second parameter of the inflate() call from null to the ViewGroup that view1 is added to. Or post the code where you add it (and include the part where you define the LayoutParams).

Fragment's and sub-Fragment's LinearLayouts aren't stretching to the entire parent size

I'm having an issue where my Fragment view inside a LinearLayout isn't streching to the parent's height and width. But it is a little bit more complicated since I have two Fragments inside that Fragment.
Here's the Activity's view:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/main_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center|fill"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="8dp" >
</LinearLayout>
Here's the parent fragment XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/LinearLayout1"
android:background="#FF00FF"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/mtg_player1_fragment_wrapper"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#0000FF"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/mtg_player2_fragment_wrapper"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#FF0000"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
And the child (player) fragment XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mtg_player_life_wrapper"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/mtg_player_life_count"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#00FF00"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
android:text="0"
android:textSize="140sp" />
</LinearLayout>
I'm adding the parent fragment like this (via clicking on a list item):
getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(R.id.main_content, fragment, newFragmentClass.getSimpleName()).setTransition(FragmentTransaction.TRANSIT_FRAGMENT_OPEN).commit();
And the children fragment like this (on the parent's onViewCreated()):
mPlayer1Frag = (PlayerFragment) getSherlockActivity().getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.player1_fragment_wrapper);
if (mPlayer1Frag == null) {
mPlayer1Frag = new PlayerFragment();
}
if (!mPlayer1Frag.isVisible()) {
((RoboSherlockFragmentActivity)getSherlockActivity()).getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(R.id.player1_fragment_wrapper, mPlayer1Frag).commit();
}
mPlayer2Frag = (PlayerFragment) getSherlockActivity().getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.player2_fragment_wrapper);
if (mPlayer2Frag == null) {
mPlayer2Frag = new PlayerFragment();
}
if (!mPlayer2Frag.isVisible()) {
((RoboSherlockFragmentActivity)getSherlockActivity()).getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(R.id.player2_fragment_wrapper, mPlayer2Frag).commit();
}
What I get is the following:
What basically happened is:
The parent Fragment view didn't stretch vertically to fill the entire activity's view (no pink appeared);
The TextView (green) didn't stretch to cover the children fragment layout (red/blue);
What I want to happen is for the parent UI to stretch in the entire activity, for the children to cover the entire parent and for the TextViews to cover the entire child. I could change it to use a single fragment (and may well do that), but I'd prefer if I could keep it this way, since it feels more organized :)
So, the question is, what am I doing wrong? Can't this be done using two fragments inside another?

In the onCreateView() method of a Fragment always inflate the layout file using the container parameter of that method like this:
inflater.inflate(R.layout.parent_view, container, false);
This way the inflated view will be given proper LayoutParams and it will behave as designed.

Android: margin/padding for the ListView without having the margin applied to the header?

Is it possible to have a margin/padding for the ListView without having the margin applied to the header? I want my ListView to be like the Google Now layout. I've got everything working except for this little problem.
Question: Is it possible to not have layout parameters of the ListView apply to its header?
EDIT1:More info
The purple view is the header to the listView.
I have tried adding margin to the list item layout.This doesnt work either.
All i need is a way to apply margin to the listview so that it doesnt apply the margin to the header in the listView.
EDIT2:
My layouts
header.xml
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/top_height"
android:background="#color/top_item" />
<View
android:id="#+id/placeholder"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/sticky_height"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
</FrameLayout>
root_list.xml
<LinearLayout>
<com.test.CustomListView
android:id="#android:id/list"
android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" /></LinearLayout>
list_item.xml
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/card_background"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview_note"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview_note_date"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/></LinearLayout>
I've removed uselsess layout properties here due to length of this post.

After much digging around i found that its is not posssible to decouple the listView layout params from its headers and the header is part of listView. So in order to get the desirred margin effect, After much looking around I found out that adding margin to your root of the layout in the list view item didnt work. So I added another dummy LinearLayout inside the existing root LinearLayout(a nested LinearLayout) and added the children inside the nested layout.Now setting margin to the inner layout gives the desired effect.
Code:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
android:background="#drawable/list_selector"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview_note"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview_note_date"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

In your header part, add the following tag:
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
this will solve your problem.

// Temp is the root view that was found in the xml
final View temp = createViewFromTag(root, name, attrs, false);
ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = null;
if (root != null) {
if (DEBUG) {
System.out.println("Creating params from root: " +
root);
}
// Create layout params that match root, if supplied
params = root.generateLayoutParams(attrs);
if (!attachToRoot) {
// Set the layout params for temp if we are not
// attaching. (If we are, we use addView, below)
temp.setLayoutParams(params);
}
// We are supposed to attach all the views we found (int temp)
// to root. Do that now.
if (root != null && attachToRoot) {
root.addView(temp, params);
}
// Decide whether to return the root that was passed in or the
// top view found in xml.
if (root == null || !attachToRoot) {
result = temp;
}
...
return result;
this is the code of LayoutInflater,as you can see ,if you add a root,it's not null,generated the layoutParams from root.
and then if the thrid param is false,there is only make temp.setLayoutParams(params) which params is generated by root!! and the temp is as return....
if attachToRoot is true,root will execute root.addView(temp, params),and then the root is as return..
if you just do LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.popup_choose_type, null);,and if you had set some attribute as paddingBottom,it will surprised you that is will not work!!because of loss LayoutParams!
As for how to solve it,you can see
here

you can do it by give margin in listview's layout file then you will get it the output.