android:layout_with="",view - android layout with visibility GONE - Stack Overflow

Four views are using same xml. I want to show a linear layout for view 1 only.

I put android:visibility="gone" in xml. And then I am doing the following for view 1-

LinearLayout layone= (LinearLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.layone);

layone.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

But that doesn't set the visibility to visible.

Isn't it possible to show the view once its declared GONE in xml ?

I don't want to converse the logic by just doing,

layone.setVisibility(View.GONE);

in each of the three views except view 1.

Ideas or comments?

UPDATE:

My xml -

android:id="@+id/layone"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:text="Previous Page"

android:textColor="#000000"

android:textSize="16dp"

android:paddingLeft="10dp"

android:layout_marginTop="10dp"

android:visibility="gone" />

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="50dp"

android:orientation="horizontal"

android:padding="10dp"

android:gravity="center_vertical"

android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"

android:layout_marginRight="10dp"

android:tag="PrevEntries"

android:id="@+id/laytwo"

android:layout_marginTop="10dp"

android:background="@layout/roundedtext"

android:visibility="gone" >

android:id="@+id/laythree"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_weight="1"

android:text="Previous Page"

android:textColor="#000000"

android:textSize="18dp"

android:gravity="center"

android:textStyle="bold" />