How can I remove a button or make it invisible in Android?

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How can I remove a button in Android, or make it invisible?

score 385 · Accepted Answer · edited May 20 '16 at 21:13

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Set button visibility to GONE (button will be completely "removed" -- the buttons space will be available for another widgets) or INVISIBLE (button will became "transparent" -- its space will not be available for another widgets):

View b = findViewById(R.id.button);
b.setVisibility(View.GONE);

or in xml:

<Button ... android:visibility="gone"/>

edited May 20 '16 at 21:13

gregschlom

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answered Nov 08 '10 at 20:37

Konstantin Burov

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when you set it to gone does it still count as a child? if i did something like child count or get child at index what ever? – Lpc_dark Dec 27 '12 at 20:41
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I think yes, it does still count as a child. – Konstantin Burov Dec 28 '12 at 02:07
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And to show it like this.. b.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); – Zar E Ahmer May 19 '14 at 10:56
Any way to enable/make it visible through javascript executor or anything? – Ashok kumar Ganesan Aug 11 '20 at 07:00

score 39 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 04 '17 at 21:20

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First make the button invisible in xml file.Then set button visible in java code if needed.

Button resetButton=(Button)findViewById(R.id.my_button_del);
resetButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); //To set visible

Xml:

<Button
android:text="Delete"
android:id="@+id/my_button_del"
android:layout_width="72dp" 
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:visibility="invisible"/>

edited Jan 04 '17 at 21:20

Mick Ashton

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answered Feb 17 '12 at 12:21

Thomas V J

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I want make the button invisible, but that should be accesible in activity, much like Super secret button. It should not show up in activity, but the button should work – Samrat Mazumdar Jun 30 '12 at 15:56
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Use "buttonCleanup.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);" instead of the zero. – Vincent Jun 30 '15 at 10:00

score 17 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 18 '12 at 09:48

To remove button in java code:

Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn);
btn.setVisibility(View.GONE);

To transparent Button in java code:

Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn);
btn.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

To remove button in Xml file:

<Button
android:id="@+id/btn"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="gone"/>

To transparent button in Xml file:

<Button
android:id="@+id/btn"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="invisible"/>

score 14 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 18 '13 at 08:59

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button.setVisibility(View.GONE);

edited Mar 18 '13 at 08:59

Korhan Ozturk

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answered Nov 08 '10 at 20:34

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score 13 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 05 '13 at 22:28

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This view is visible.

button.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

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

button.setVisibility(View.GONE);

But if you just want to make it invisible:

button.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

edited Dec 05 '13 at 22:28

Neru-J

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answered Jun 22 '13 at 18:54

MSIslam

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score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Feb 26 '16 at 19:04

use setVisibility in button or imageViwe or .....
To remove button in java code:

Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn);
btn.setVisibility(Button.GONE);

To transparent Button in java code

Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn);
btn.setVisibility(Button.INVISIBLE);

You should make you button xml code like below:

<Button
android:id="@+id/btn"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="gone"/>

hidden:
visibility: gone
show:
visibility: invisible
visibility: visible

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 24 '17 at 17:08

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button.setVisibility(button.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE ? View.GONE : View.VISIBLE);

Makes it visible if invisible and invisible if visible

answered Feb 24 '17 at 17:08

ORY

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score 2 · Answer 8 · edited Mar 12 '18 at 08:54

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IF you want to make invisible button, then use this:

<Button ... android:visibility="gone"/>

View.INVISIBLE:

Button will become transparent. But it taking space.

View.GONE

Button will be completely remove from the layout and we can add other widget in the place of removed button.

edited Mar 12 '18 at 08:54

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answered Mar 12 '18 at 08:32

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 17 '16 at 21:32

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To completely remove a button from its parent layout:

((ViewGroup)button.getParent()).removeView(button);

answered Jul 17 '16 at 21:32

Daniel

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Nov 25 '16 at 04:36

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/activity_register_header"
    android:minHeight="50dp"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:visibility="gone" />

Try This Code

Visibility works fine in this code

score 0 · Answer 11 · edited Apr 28 '18 at 14:02

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In order to access elements from another class you can simply use

findViewById(R.id.**nameOfYourelementID**).setVisibility(View.GONE);

edited Apr 28 '18 at 14:02

FrankS101

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answered Apr 28 '18 at 13:23

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Jun 14 '21 at 14:21

If you want to make your button invisible such that it doesn't take any space in the layout, then add this in your Java code:

Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button);
button.setVisibility(View.GONE);

Or in XML: android:visibility="gone"

If you want to make your button invisible such that it still takes up space in your layout then replace "View.GONE" with "View.INVISIBLE" in your java code or replace "gone" with "invisible" in your xml code.

score -1 · Answer 13 · edited Nov 26 '14 at 20:13

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Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn);
btn.setVisibility(8);

edited Nov 26 '14 at 20:13

rink.attendant.6

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answered Nov 12 '13 at 14:33

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score -3 · Answer 14 · edited May 26 '16 at 07:47

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Try This Code :

button.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

edited May 26 '16 at 07:47

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answered Jan 08 '13 at 15:46

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you really shouldn't use hard-coded values in this method -- just use the Constants -- View.GONE, View.VISIBLE or View.INVISIBLE – bkurzius Feb 18 '13 at 01:01

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