Android : Difference between View.GONE and View.INVISIBLE?

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What is the difference between View.INVISIBLE and View.GONE for the View visibility status?

When a View is gone, it means it doesn't take any space in the layout. When it is invisible, it will take the necessary room in a layout but you just don't see it. — DroidBender, Jul 19 '12 at 08:16

score 830 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '12 at 08:15

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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.

answered Jul 19 '12 at 08:15

Iñigo

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Looks like analogous to `display:none` & `visibility:hidden` in HTML/CSS :-) – anishsane Jan 30 '14 at 06:18
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Or to Hidden and Collapsed in Wpf XAML – juliushuck Aug 19 '18 at 01:00
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If it is invisible, will click on it is also disabled? – Kuldeep Yadav Nov 02 '18 at 01:09
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@KuldeepYadav yes it will be in both gone and invisible. – Steve Moretz Feb 06 '19 at 11:26
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just for future curious readers: we can still use performItemClick on list/grid views even it is invisible. – kiranking Feb 22 '19 at 21:12
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when i use `gone` the touch doesn't work at that place. – Owais Yosuf May 22 '20 at 13:40
Note that INVISIBLE still makes the view clickable; it is the same as VISIBLE but without being shown. – Amr Salah Aug 12 '22 at 05:27

Pankaj Kumar · Answer 2 · 2021-05-25T18:31:46.457

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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

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

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

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Hope this will clear your doubts.

edited May 25 '21 at 18:31

answered Apr 22 '14 at 05:25

Pankaj Kumar

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Does the idea need to be cleared? It seems clear enough for me just from the explanation. – John Dvorak Mar 12 '15 at 05:59
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@JanDvorak :) Great! I have no answer for your question. If you think this was very clear for all users, then the accepted answer should be a comment and have a link of documentation site. Am I correct? – Pankaj Kumar Mar 12 '15 at 06:09
what if i use it for edittext. is it possible to get the value from edittext ? – Ashish Jul 16 '19 at 11:28
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Your answer is better than the accepted answer. – Samudra Ganguly May 25 '21 at 06:42
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picture speaks louder than words – Gaju Kollur Jul 04 '21 at 16:24

score 35 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 26 '14 at 09:06

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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

answered Mar 26 '14 at 09:06

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score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 26 '15 at 07:49

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INVISIBLE:
The view has to be drawn and it takes time.

GONE:
The view doesn't have to be drawn.

answered Oct 26 '15 at 07:49

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View is not drawn, it is measured and laid out. – cyroxis May 06 '16 at 15:31
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@cyroxis maybe he/she means ondraw method! – David Nov 13 '17 at 07:29

score 10 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 10 '15 at 12:39

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.

Yes, you are right, It working only sometimes when view is `GONE` — Suraj Bahadur, Jul 17 '19 at 07:58

score 4 · Answer 6 · edited Oct 03 '22 at 10:41

when you make it Gone every time of compilation of the program the component gets initialized which means you are removing the component from the layout and when you make it invisible the component it will take the same space in the layout but every time you don't 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.

score 4 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 10 '17 at 11:20

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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

answered Mar 10 '17 at 11:20

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score 0 · Answer 8 · edited Oct 03 '22 at 10:39

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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.

edited Oct 03 '22 at 10:39

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answered Feb 04 '20 at 17:33

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