Is there a way to disable all the items in a specific layout programmatically?

Question

I have A game to which I recently added a global high score functionality which made a lot of people upset so I want to add the option of disabling it. What I did was this:

Answer 1

Just control the visiblity parameter for the Layout via setVisibility(). You can switch it between three values: visible, invisible and gone (see the documentation).

I think in your case the most senseful would be to switch between visible and gone.