Creating an empty Drawable in Android

Question

Creating a Drawable that is completely empty seems like a common need, as a place holder, initial state, etc., but there doesn\'t seem to be a good way to do this... at least in

Answer 1

creates an empty shape and does the trick for me. Or create a file empty_drawable.xml containing:

so you can use it elsewhere.

You can also make a shape disappear when the view it is used in is not enabled by creating my_disablable_view.xml: