Show-hide Toggle Button For Layout In Android

I was wondering why a button I made to show/hide my layouts only works once, i.e, initially my layouts are GONE, then when I click a button they're VISIBLE, but later when I click

Solution 1:

Here is a sample which should work for you

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;

publicclassMainActivityextendsActivity {

    privateLinearLayout mMapViewsButtonsLinearLayout=null;
    privateLinearLayout mLocationButtonsLinearLayout=null;


    @OverrideprotectedvoidonCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mMapViewsButtonsLinearLayout= (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.mMapViewsButtonsLinearLayout);
        mLocationButtonsLinearLayout= (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.mLocationButtonsLinearLayout);

    }

    publicvoidhideOrDisplayOptionIconsButton(View v)
    {
        // Hide layouts if VISIBLEif(mMapViewsButtonsLinearLayout.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE
                && mLocationButtonsLinearLayout.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE)
        {
            mMapViewsButtonsLinearLayout.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            mLocationButtonsLinearLayout.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }
        // Show layouts if they're not VISIBLEelse
        {
            mMapViewsButtonsLinearLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            mLocationButtonsLinearLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }
    }
}

Here is the layout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:orientation="vertical"tools:context="com.hideshow.MainActivity"><LinearLayoutandroid:id="@+id/mMapViewsButtonsLinearLayout"android:orientation="horizontal"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"><Buttonandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="New Button"android:id="@+id/button" /><Buttonandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="New Button"android:id="@+id/button2" /></LinearLayout><LinearLayoutandroid:id="@+id/mLocationButtonsLinearLayout"android:orientation="horizontal"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"><Buttonandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="New Button"android:id="@+id/button3" /><Buttonandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="New Button"android:id="@+id/button4" /></LinearLayout><LinearLayoutandroid:orientation="horizontal"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"><Buttonandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="Hide or Show"android:id="@+id/hideorshow"android:onClick="hideOrDisplayOptionIconsButton" /></LinearLayout></LinearLayout>