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Set The Visibility of The Whole Box

So in my app I have a registration form used to register other users. In my app I have 3 ranks (Admin, Patient, HCP). In the 'New HCP' form I want to hide something that is in my .xml file for the TextView. I am well aware of setVisibilty(View.GONE); but this doesn't work for my options because I have the boxes in a Constraint Layout.
My Question is:
How do I hide the whole box including its contents?
I tried this (but it only hid the contents and left the drawable box behind:
TextView consent_TextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.Register_text_Activity_consent);
consent_TextView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
TextView remind_TextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.Register_text_Activity_remind);
remind_TextView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
Please remember that I want to change this in Java not XML because if I do it in XML I will hide the box for everyone. Thanks!

As said in the comments, you can get a reference to the box you want to set the visibility either through View#getParent() or you can set its id programatically via View#setId(), bind it and set its visibility.

Programmatically access IntelliJ UI Designer created objects?

I have created a TextView in the UI designer, but I can't figure out how I should access it from the code. I have tried Go To Declaration but that just brings me to the XML file where the TextView is 'made'. Does anyone know how to do this? Help is very much appreciated!

This is independent of the IDE. First you need to "find" the TextView, then you can modify its properties:
TextView myTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.yourid); // The ID is declared in the XML file as android:id atrribute.
myTextView.setText("New Text");

What do you mean by "access it from the code"? If you're talking about navigating from where it's referenced in the code to viewing it in the UI designer, newer versions of Intellij with Android support enabled put tabs at the bottom of the editor when you're editing XML files to let you switch between a text representation and a visual representation of layout files.
If you're talking about how to instantiate the view in code, post some samples of what you've been trying (the most common way is to use a LayoutInflater).
Edit:
Changing the actual text that's displayed in the TextView isn't an IDE-specific issue. You have two ways to do this (well, three if you count the visual and text views of the XML file as separate methods). You can set the text either in the XML file by setting the android:text attribute on the TextView widget, or in the code by calling setText(). Whichever way you decide to do it, you should consider not referring to your text as a raw string but as a String resource as described here.
Edit 2:
OK, you're looking for instructions on how to inflate the view in the first place to get access to it. This is what I answered initially, but here's a little more code. In your Activity (you do have an Activity set up, right?):
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.<your layout ID>, null);
RelativeLayout item = (RelativeLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.<your TextView's id>);

How do you make custom widgets?

When using developing Widgets for Android it seems you are not able to add your own custom View classes to a AppWidgetProvider.
For example I created a custom class which extends View, this works fine when used within an Activity but the moment I add it to a Widget I get a "ClassNotFoundException" because Android seems to only allow a set of certain system widgets to be added.
I have seen some apps which look like they have made there own custom widgets. For example there is one that brings up a radial menu when clicked which shows application shortcuts. How are these being implemented? Is there a work around to using my own custom widget? They seem to have a canvas which they are able to draw on within the widget.
Okay quick example https://market.android.com/details?id=zombiesinthelab.widgets.droidpetwidget&feature=top-paid
So this widget is being done by just drawing ImageViews and updating them periodically opposed to using a canvas to draw the frames?

Android Widgets can only contain Layout-Widgets supported by RemoteViews. See this list:
A RemoteViews object (and,
consequently, an App Widget) can
support the following layout classes:
FrameLayout
LinearLayout
RelativeLayout
And the following widget classes:
AnalogClock
Button
Chronometer
ImageButton
ImageView
ProgressBar
TextView
> Descendants of these classes are not
supported.
Pay attention to the last sentence. You can not change this behaviour, it is hard coded in android.

I have not much idea on how to create widgets but following links can definitely help you:
1) http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html
2) http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html

Dynamically Displaying Text with TextView (Android)

Basically what I want to do in my Android app is use TextView to display two different pieces of text at once. So in code, I want to be able to do something like this:
LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(this);
TextView text = new TextView(this);
text.setTextColor(0xFF000000);
text.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);
text.setTextSize(20f);
text.setText("Text1");
text.setTextSize(14f);
text.setColor(0xFF0000FF);
text.setText("\nText2");
ll.addView(text);
To clarify, I am trying to display a black "Text1" and a blue "Text2" at once using only a single TextView. Obviously this doesn't work out using the code above. I've considered using a second TextView but that seems like a waste of effort and memory to me. I'm sure the brilliant minds here can come up with the best solution to this.
Thank you very much in advance for your time and your assistance.

There are two options for you.
One is
Spannable
and other is
fromHtml (String source)
So that you can get your desired output.

I think with the current version of the code, you can see only the latest text (Text2).
If you want to have multiple look and feel for two texts, I would suggest use 2 separate TextViews. It would add more flexibility.
If you are not going to change this UI code later, then you can consider Html.toHtml() in setText() call.

It seems the problem is with:
LinearLayout.addView(text);
You are trying to add a view to a LinearLayout, but the layout doesn't exist (in the current activity). You need to add the TextView to a Layout defined in the .xml you are using. Suppose you have a LinearLayout with id "linearlayout01" in the xml file "activity1.xml", you would do something like:
setContentView(R.layout.activity1);
// Create and adjust TextView text
...
LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.linearlayout01);
layout.addView(text);

Once a View is added to a ViewGroup of which LinearLayout is a descendant you do not need to readd it to update its display. If you preform any changes on a view that requires it to change its display it will handle all the proper notifications about required redraws or relayouts by calling View#invalidate and View#requestLayout where appropriate.
In addition, because all UI changes are handled on the same thread you do not need to worry about calling multiple methods that will update the UI. This is because of two reasons, first, the execution of the redraws will not occur until your code is finished, second, android has optimizations built in that combines multiple invalidate calls into one.
So, the only thing you need to worry about is getting a proper reference to your TextView instance and then you can call all the methods on it that you need to make it display what you wish.
Since you are creating your Views manually and not from xml you need to add your root ViewGroup to the Activity by calling Activity#setContentView.
Edit:
Then you're going to need to learn about SpannableString and SpannableStringBuilder. There is some very brief documentation here: Selecting, Highlighting, or Styling Portions of Text

when do you plan to update the textview ? If it is on click of a button then get a reference to the textview and in the onClickListener() update the text, color, etc whatever you want to do.
After seeing your other comments, I think SpannableString is what you are looking for

Android custom title bar, does not work with android:label from manifest

I have a custom title bar that I would like to apply to all my activities. I have searched online and found a few ways of doing that however I have ran into a problem.
It seems that despite the fact I have a TextView in my titlebar with id #android:/title, Android will not use the value defined in the manifest in android:label for each activity.
I tried also calling setTitle(R.string.myTitle) but it still will not render it! If I manually put some text in my TextView in the xml it shows up fine.
How can I have a custom title bar that is linked and makes Android use my manifest values for labels? I do not want to lose the setTitle() or the XML attributes functionality.
Thanks.

Try using #android:id/title instead of #android:/title.