Equivalent of waitForVisible/waitForElementPresent in Selenium WebDriver tests using Java?

Implicit and Explicit Waits

Implicit Wait

An implicit wait is to tell WebDriver to poll the DOM for a certain
amount of time when trying to find an element or elements if they are
not immediately available. The default setting is 0. Once set, the
implicit wait is set for the life of the WebDriver object instance.

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Explicit Wait + Expected Conditions

An explicit waits is code you define to wait for a certain condition
to occur before proceeding further in the code. The worst case of this
is Thread.sleep(), which sets the condition to an exact time period to
wait. There are some convenience methods provided that help you write
code that will wait only as long as required. WebDriverWait in
combination with ExpectedCondition is one way this can be
accomplished.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement element = wait.until(
        ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("someid")));

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