Question

I’m wondering if there is a way to hide a field in Android.
I tried with setting the value in a TextEdit and then making the TextEdit invisible, but the result is that the value is invisible, but the control takes space.

In my case, I want to store an extra value in a row of a ListView.
Is there another solution besides using hidden fields?

Answer 1

Use View’s public static final int GONE field.

In your case textEdit.setVisibility(View.GONE), or in xml android:visibility="gone"

Setting the view to INVISIBLE does not take layout into consideration, but GONE does.