Can I hide an image button on a layout, (dimensions and background) until a call to set visible?

Question

I have a hidden image button in one of my xmls layouts, with a background set to a drawable image. I set the visibility to invisible, as I only want the image to display every

Answer 1

Set Visibility property of Imageview like this in java

imgView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
imgView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
imgView.setVisibility(View.GONE);

Or like this in XML

android:visibility="visible"
android:visibility="gone"
android:visibility="invisible"

Result for each will be like this