How to "deflate" a ViewStub?

Question

So I can inflate a ViewStub at runtime. Let's say I want to make it disappear and then maybe inflate again depending on some event occurring (for example, a toolbar that inflates and deflates according to what the user selects on screen).

I can use View.setVisibility(4) EDIT View.setVisibility(View.GONE) EDIT .... is there any other way?

Or am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks! :)

Answer 1

Inflating layouts can be expensive, especially on older devices. Think of ViewStub as more of a lazy-loading mechanism for view subtrees that may or may not ever get expanded rather than a way to swap out sections of a view hierarchy at runtime. Once inflated, there's nothing wrong with swapping between VISIBLE/GONE. GONE will make the framework skip that subtree during expensive traversals.