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Tyler
Tyler

Reputation: 19858

Viewbinding with error: incompatible with attribute android:visibility

I'm trying to set the visibility and the src of an ImageView using data binding. I don't know why this error is showing up, and I truely believe that this was working at one point, but I could be wrong.

Layout:

<data>
    <import type="android.view.View" />
    <import type="android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat" />
    <variable
        name="viewData"
        type="com.myapp.SomethingViewData" />
</data>
    ...
        <ImageView
            ...
            android:src="@{ContextCompat.getDrawable(context, viewData.getIconResource())}"
            android:visibility="@{viewData.getIconVisibility() ? View.VISIBLE : View.GONE}" />

Data class

@Parcelize
data class SomethingViewData(val iconResource: Int,
                             val iconVisibility: Boolean) : Parcelable

Error message:

error: '@{ContextCompat.getDrawable(context, viewData.getIconResource())}' is incompatible with attribute android:src (attr) reference|color.   
error: '@{viewData.getIconVisibility() ? View.VISIBLE : View.GONE}' is incompatible with attribute android:visibility (attr) enum [gone=2, invisible=1, visible=0].

What does this mean and how do I fix it?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 8706

Answers (6)

Mihail Minkov
Mihail Minkov

Reputation: 2633

As of 2023 I just had to use it like this:

android:visibility="gone"

According to the documentations the possible values for the layout XML are:

android:visibility="visible|invisible|gone"

You can check the documentation here: Android View Documentation

Upvotes: 0

Sabi
Sabi

Reputation: 141

I had the same error and solved it with help of this site: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/android-databinding/#2

I needed to convert my ConstraintLayout to a data binding layout like shown on this picture from this site: enter image description here

Maybe this will help someone!

Upvotes: 14

gregdev
gregdev

Reputation: 1953

In my case a missing closing brace caused this error to pop up for me - I had:

android:visibility="@{moment.state == State.COMPLETE ? View.GONE : View.VISIBLE"

instead of:

android:visibility="@{moment.state == State.COMPLETE ? View.GONE : View.VISIBLE}"

Upvotes: 44

Tyler
Tyler

Reputation: 19858

Wow, so, somehow dataBinding { enabled = true } was removed from my app modules build.gradle file. Adding it back and everything worked like before.

Upvotes: 11

jbmcle
jbmcle

Reputation: 811

Try using single quotations in your src and visibility

android:src='@{ContextCompat.getDrawable(context, viewData.getIconResource())}'
android:visibility='@{viewData.getIconVisibility() ? View.VISIBLE : View.GONE}'

Upvotes: 0

Louis Solo
Louis Solo

Reputation: 136

Your "getIconVisibility" return an integer but android:visibility (in your XML file) need a enum value: Visibility.Gone | Visibility.Visible | Visibility.Invisible

Upvotes: 0

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