How can I to make surfaceview invisible in Android?

Question

in my app i am using a media player with a seek bar. The seek bar of works along with a surface view. Now my problem is the surface view appears at a corner of my layout which appears to be a black screen. How can i make the surface view to be an invisible. Following is the image of my layout,

Answer 1

You can do that by setting the visibility in the code:

surfaceView.setVisibility(View.GONE) or surfaceView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE).

And you can do the same by setting it in the XML:

<SurfaceView 
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  android:visibility="gone"/>

GONE is used if you want it to be completely gone and ignored by the rest of the layout. INVISIBLE is used if you only want to change the visibility.