Question

Ok I have a relative layout inside a linear one.Until now,the relative layout was perfect,however now a big problem appeared.

A relative layout is based on the others item’s position.For ex button2 is at the bottom of button1,and so on…and if button 1 disappears,button2 gets…”nuts”.

That’s my problem, when a button disappears one of the 4 buttons gets…up.
What I need is to position the buttons like this:

Button1 and button 2 at the middle of the screen,and 3 and 4 lower,but not really at the bottom.
I tried to modify it in relative layout but I failed…Hope you can help me.
Here’s the code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/relativeLayout1" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
        <TextView 
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" 
        android:id="@+id/textView2" 
        android:text="TextView" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true" 
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true">
        </TextView>
        <Button 
        android:textSize="20dp" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:id="@+id/button3" 
        android:text="Button" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"  
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="27dp" 
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
        </Button>
        <TextView 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:id="@+id/textView1" 
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:text="TextView" 
        android:layout_above="@+id/button1" 
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="74dp">
        </TextView>
        <Button 
        android:textSize="20dp" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:id="@+id/button2" 
        android:text="Button" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button1" 
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button1" 
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true">
        </Button>
        <Button 
        android:textSize="20dp" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:id="@+id/button1" 
        android:paddingRight="30dp" 
        android:paddingBottom="90px" 
        android:text="Button" 
        android:padding="10dp" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_centerVertical="true" 
        android:layout_alignRight="@+id/button3">
        </Button>
        <Button 
        android:textSize="20dp" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:gravity="bottom" 
        android:id="@+id/button4" 
        android:text="Button" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button3" 
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button3" 
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true">
        </Button>
    </RelativeLayout>

Here’s the code I use to make the button invisible:

        Button b1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
        Button b2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);
        Button b3 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button3);
        Button b4 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button4);
        b1.setVisibility(View.GONE);

Answer 1

if you are using view.setVisibility(View.GONE)..then try View.INVISIBLE
here view = (your textview,button anything)