Show hide fragment in android

Don't mess with the visibility flags of the container - FragmentTransaction.hide/show does that internally for you.

So the correct way to do this is:

FragmentManager fm = getFragmentManager();
fm.beginTransaction()
          .setCustomAnimations(android.R.animator.fade_in, android.R.animator.fade_out)
          .show(somefrag)
          .commit();

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OR if you are using android.support.v4.app.Fragment

 FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
 fm.beginTransaction()
          .setCustomAnimations(android.R.anim.fade_in, android.R.anim.fade_out)
          .show(somefrag)
          .commit();

In addittion, you can do in a Fragment (for example when getting server data failed):

 getView().setVisibility(View.GONE);