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Component used: Fragment
Version used: 1.2.0-alpha02

show() and hide() don't affect the Fragment itself, but operate only on the View level to set the visibility of the View to VISIBLE / GONE, respectively.

This leads to cases where the Fragment is actually not visible (for example, an opaque view is over the top of your Fragment's view or you've set the visibility independently from FragmentTransaction), but isHidden() returns a value that is only related to whether you've called show() / hide() last.

This mismatch between what the Fragment level provides and what is actually happening at the View level means that this type of operation should exist on the level it operates on: solely at the View level.

Therefore the show() / hide() and isHidden() methods at the Fragment layer should be deprecated.