Thanks for taking a second and responding to my question if you get the time; I\'m fairly new to programming android so any help is great!
I am using Android Studio, and
The only way I see is putting the right code part as the first child of the viewflipper to see rendering in the graphical layout.
What I do is drag the views that you don't want as the first to the viewflipper. This places/stacks those views underneath the view that you want.
-ViewFlipper -ViewUwant -viewuduntwant