Issue with RelativeLayout when View visibility is View.GONE

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I've a RelativeLayout thus:

<RelativeLayout>
<TextView1/>
<TextView2/> // <-- View.VISIBLE OR View.GONE
<TextView3/>
<TextView4/>
</RelativeLayout>

Each TextView is anchored below the previous TextView with android:layout_below.

The problem is that TextView2 may or may not be there (either View.VISIBLE or View.GONE); if it's View.VISIBLE, then all is fine, but if it's View.GONE, then TextView3 ends up being rendered on top of TextView1.

I've tried various ways to fix this, but each time am caught out by RelativeLayout's 'you cannot reference an id before it's defined' rule.

I'm hoping that I'm missing something obvious here.

android-relativelayout android
8 Answers

you can do this 

<RelativeLayout>
<TextView1/>
<FrameLayout>
  <TextView2/>  // <-- View.VISIBLE OR View.GONE
</FrameLayout>
<TextView3/>
<TextView4/>
</RelativeLayout>

let TextView3 below this FrameLayout which has no background, so if TextView2 is Gone ,it doesn't occupy space.

user_103290650

place all textViews under LinearLayout with vertical orientation.

<LinearLayout>
<TextView/>
<TextView/>
<TextView/>
<TextView/>
<TextView/>
<TextView/>
</LinearLayout>
user_90977730

A simple hack for this is to play with alpha 0/1. and also disable the onClickListener if there is any

user_16162610
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