Is there a difference between the visibility of a view.GONE or false?

Question

I would like to know which of these implementations is the correct one?

tlb.setVisibility(View.GONE); 

or

tlb.setVisibility(false);

What’s the difference between them?

Answer 1

In accordance with the documentation , the method setVisibility calls for a int, and not a boolean!

You can use three options:

1. View.VISIBLE (Being shown)

2. View.INVISIBLE (Not displayed but occupies the screen space)

3. View.GONE (Does not display and does not occupy the screen space)

I believe if you try to pass one boolean in this method, the following error shall occur:

Error:: no suitable method found for setVisibility(Boolean) method View.setVisibility(int) is not applicable (argument Mismatch; Boolean cannot be converted to int) method Imageview.setVisibility(int) is not applicable (argument Mismatch; Boolean cannot be converted to int) method Visibilityawareimagebutton.setVisibility(int) is not applicable (argument Mismatch; Boolean cannot be converted to int)

Answer 2

The estate Gone causes the view to be treated as if it did not exist while the Invisible he’s simply invisible, so yes there’s a difference.