ViewHelper.setX() on View with visibility GONE sets visibility to VISIBLE

[nhaarman]

When doing this:

myView.setVisibility(GONE);
ViewHelper.setX(newX, myView);

The myView object becomes visible again on pre-HC (tested on 2.3.3). On 4.2.2 this does not happen.

[JakeWharton]

Using the compatibility transformations requires an animation be playing on the view which requires it to be visible. There's no way to work around this fact.