what is difference b/w View.GONE and View.INVISIBLE

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I am using a Custom View. On the Custom View I am plotting some Graph. And also I am using TextView on my layout. When I am making this TextView VISIBLE and INVISIBLE on button click , it is clearing graph.Why it is clearing graph with both GONE and INVISIBLE?

Any Idea?

For your specific problem paste all the relevant code. You got two questions there and the first is a dupe. The second is near impossible to answer without your code. — David Olsson, Aug 21 '13 at 11:04

score 58 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Read more about Android : difference between invisible and gone?

From Documentation you can say that

View.GONE This view is invisible, and it doesn't take any space for layout purposes.

View.INVISIBLE This view is invisible, but it still takes up space for layout purposes.

Lets clear the idea with some pictures.

Assume that you have three buttons, like below

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Now if you set visibility of Button Two as invisible (View.INVISIBLE), then output will be

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And when you set visibility of Button Two as gone (View.GONE) then output will be

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Hope this will clear your doubts.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Aug 21 '13 at 11:05

Pankaj Kumar

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Yes ofcourse thanks you very much... – Tejas Aug 21 '13 at 11:09
But is the view is still held in view hierarchy when you do View.GONE? – Bhargav Feb 24 '16 at 08:24

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 21 '13 at 10:59

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From Android official documentation,

View.GONE This view is invisible, and it doesn't take any space for layout purposes.

View.INVISIBLE This view is invisible, but it still takes up space for layout purposes.

answered Aug 21 '13 at 10:59

Raptor

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Thanks Shivan Raptor , but do you have any Idea , why it is clearing graph on Custom View? – Tejas Aug 21 '13 at 11:01
This should be comment when you only copied content from another place. – Simon Dorociak Aug 21 '13 at 11:04

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