Question

What I want to do is show a “frame” (or new layout) on top of “2” (second LinearLayout), when a button would be pressed. How should I do it? Precreate it and make it somehow hidden if button not pressed?

I have this type of layout:

XML:

<LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout>
        //here would be another view, only shown when a button is clicked
        <ViewFlipper>
        </ViewFlipper>
    </LinearLayout>

    <RelativeLayout      
    </RelativeLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

If you want to show any view on button click then first put that view inside xml and make its visibility gone, and on button click make it visible. I have put imageview inside your code which visibility is set as gone so it wont show in layout.

<LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout>
        //here would be another view, only shown when a button is clicked
         <ImageView
                        android:id="@+id/image1"
                        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                        android:src="@drawable/icon"
                        android:visibility="gone" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <RelativeLayout      
    </RelativeLayout>

</LinearLayout>

For making image view visible,

imag1.seVisibility(View.VISIBLE);