Question

How to make TextView fill the whole screen after the Button gets invisible?

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        >
    <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            >
        <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                />
    </LinearLayout>
    <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            >
        <Button
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                />
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Button gets invisible via menu item command

button.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

Answer 1

Try

button.setVisibility(View.GONE);

More Info

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