Show gone view in Android Studio in preview

Question

I don't want set visibility programmatically and I make it in xml files, but when I set visibility property to GONE view hides from preview screen. Sometimes I need to correct some field in gone views and I must change visibility to VISIBLE, make changes and change visibility back. It's annoying.

How to make view with visibility GONE visible ONLY in Android Studio preview.

Answer 1

There is indeed a simple way to do that:

• Define the tools attribute in your main Layout:

  xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
  

• Use it to make your element visible, like you normally would:

  tools:visibility="visible"