Android difference between invisible and gone

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What is the difference between invisible and gone for the View visibility status

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View INVISIBLE- The View is invisible but it will occupy  some space in layout View GONE- The View is not visible and it will not occupy any space in layout

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when you make it Gone every time of compilation of program the component gets initialized that means you are removing the component from layout and when you make it invisible the component it will take the same space in the layout but every time you dont need to initialize it   if you set Visibility Gone then you have to initialize the component  like  eg Button  mButton   new Button this     mButton    Button findViewByid R id mButton    so it will take more time as compared to Visibility   invisible

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For ListView or GridView there is an another difference  when visibility initially set to  INVISIBLE      Adapter s getView   function called   GONE      Adapter s getView   function didn t call  thus preventing views to load  when it is unnecessary

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INVISIBLE The view has to be drawn and it takes time   GONE The view doesn t have to be drawn

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View GONE   The view will not show and the rest of the views will not take its existence into consideration  View INVISIBLE   The view will not show  but it will take its assigned space in the layout

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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  Now if you set visibility of Button Two as invisible  View INVISIBLE   then output will be  And when you set visibility of Button Two as gone  View GONE  then output will be  Hope this will clear your doubts

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INVISIBLE      This view is invisible  but it still takes up space for layout purposes    GONE      This view is invisible  and it doesn t take any space for layout purposes

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I d like to add to the right and successful answers  that if you initialize a view with visibility as View GONE  the view could have been not initialized and you will get some random errors   For example if you initialize a layout as View GONE and then you try to start an animation  from my experience I ve got my animation working randomly times  Sometimes yes  sometimes no   So before handling  resizing  move  whatever  a view  you have to init it as View VISIBLE or View INVISIBLE to render it  draw it  in the screen  and then handle it

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