I am building an app, and one of the things that I want to do is have a set text as well as a hint in the same edittext, right next to each other. I want to show the user that the edittext can be used for more than one purpose.
like this:
Text more text if you want
Here is part of the xml file that I am using:
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"
android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
android:inputType="textPersonName"
android:ems="10"
android:textSize="10sp"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
tools:textAlignment="gravity"
android:id="#+id/editText4"
android:text="location" />
Does anybody have any suggestion on how to accomplish that?
In your Java file create a member variable.
private EditText mWhatYouWrite;
and then pass your widget's value using id.
mWhatYouWrite = findViewById =(R.id.your_edit_text_id);
then simply create a field in string.xml of what you wanna write and pass in the value using setText();
mWhatYouWrite.setText(R.string.key_of_your_string);
Hope It Helps!
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I have a layout where I want to show a bunvh of edit texts and a date picker. Since I want to have the same design for all fields, I figured out that I need to user an edit text for date picker too but make it non editable but clickable. Below is the xml code of my edit text that will be used to show the date picker :
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/notification_layout"
style="#style/Theme.Connect.InputFieldLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:startIconDrawable="#drawable/ic_stk_notification_24dp">
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
android:id="#+id/notification_edit_text"
style="#style/Theme.Connect.InputField"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Notification"
android:maxLines="1"
android:lines="1"
android:cursorVisible="false"/>
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
I tried many solutions I found on the internet, I did managed to make edit text non editable but without the ripple click effect. Is there a way to make the edit text non edditable but still keep the ripple click effect? Is this the best practice to show a date picker consisting the design of the form layout?
Try this and change the `android:focusable` attribute to `false`
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/notification_layout"
style="#style/Theme.Connect.InputFieldLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:startIconDrawable="#drawable/ic_stk_notification_24dp">
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
android:id="#+id/notification_edit_text"
style="#style/Theme.Connect.InputField"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Notification"
android:maxLines="1"
android:focusable="false"
android:lines="1"
android:cursorVisible="false"/>
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
You can simply use a TextView instead of an EditText and you can set an onClickListener() to it. You can also style it the way you want.
notification_textview.setOnClickListener {
// Whatever you want to do after a click
}
You can get a ripple effect on touch by adding these 2 attributes to your textview
<......Textview
android:background=?android:attr/selectableItemBackground
android:clickable="true" />
You can also add styles to a textview that you wanted to use for the editText.
I'm using PopupWindow to get some data from users. Surprisingly, I'm unable to select text inside the EditText layout which is the requirement, as I want user to be able to copy(from anywhere) and paste here. I've explicitly used android:textIsSelectable="true" for my EditText. Here are the attributes I'm using for EditText.
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="48dp"
android:id="#+id/emailEdit"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
android:textIsSelectable="true"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/email"
android:drawablePadding="16dp"
android:layout_margin="#dimen/actionable_horizontal_margin"
android:singleLine="true"
android:hint="Email"
/>
I'm also setting popup.setFocusable(true). Is there something else that needs to be done?
My copy paste is working fine for other EditTexts in activities and fragments.
P.S. I don't want to use custom Clipboard actions.
I have this stupid and seemingly trivial problem with the properties of an EditText.
The properties I am trying to achieve for the EditText, are the following:
The contents of the view should NOT contain newlines. It can be text, numbers, symbols, but no newlines.
The soft keyboard should NOT display the enter button because of the above. It should instead display something like "Send" or "Done".
The contents of the view should NOT continue horizontally when reaching the edge of the screen. Instead I want to wrap the text, displaying it on multiple lines.
I have tried many different combinations, but I can not achieve this combination.
What I currently have is this, which is inside a RelativeLayout:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/comment_box"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="80dp"
android:layout_below="#id/preparation_text"
android:hint="#string/comment_hint"
android:inputType="textCapSentences|textAutoCorrect|text"
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
android:maxLength="400"
android:imeOptions="actionSend"/>
It achieves 2 of 3. No newlines possible, keyboard displays "Send" rather than the enter-key for me, but the text continues on one line.
Changing inputType="text" to "textMultiLine" wraps text correctly on multiple lines, but also overrides the keyboard to always display the enter button.
I have tried different solutions around the Internet, including setting the properties maxLines="4", singleLine="true" and possible others that I have forgotten again.
I can not find a combination that works.
Output:
Exp:
The op is on right track. I did some research found that some options gets ignored which are specified in XML. but if the same options are set in code then it should do the trick. I used the same XML fragment specified in the question.
<EditText
android:id="#+id/edit_text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="80dp"
android:hint="hint"
android:inputType="textCapSentences|textAutoCorrect|text"
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
android:maxLength="400"
android:imeOptions="actionSend"
/>
And by adding the following lines in the code, it helped in achieving what you want.
edit_text.setMaxLines(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
edit_text.setHorizontallyScrolling(false);
textShortMessage is the inputType that you are looking for:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/commentEditText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="100dp"
android:paddingLeft="5dp"
android:paddingRight="5dp"
android:paddingTop="2dp"
android:paddingBottom="2dp"
android:gravity="left"
android:text=""
android:hint="hint"
android:textSize="16dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/black"
android:lineSpacingExtra="0dp"
android:lineSpacingMultiplier="1"
android:background="#android:color/white"
android:selectAllOnFocus="true"
android:inputType="textShortMessage|textMultiLine|textCapSentences"
android:singleLine="false" />
Refere to this to prevent paste function. To prevent pasting a new line.
Please use android:imeOptions="actionSend"
to solve your problem.
I have the same issue a long time ago, you have to programmatically change Edittext property on OnCreate().
So in XML, create your Edittext like this
<EditText
android:id="#+id/comment_box"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="80dp"
android:hint="Comment here"
android:maxLength="400"
android:inputType="textMultiLine" />
And on onCreate() (I wrote in kotlin not Java)
comment_box.imeOptions = EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEND
comment_box.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT)
I have an edit text with a background image. When i click on the edit text i should enter numericals.
So, I should dispaly a numeric keypad. I did this by android: inputtype = "Phone" method. But iam not getting numeric keypad. Please help me>?
for this You need to set the EditText's Input type property to number .
android:inputType="number"
you have two solutions for that
the 1st one is to do it in the layout like that android:inputType=""... see below lastline:
<EditText android:id="#+id/getLat"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:cursorVisible="true"
android:editable="true"
android:singleLine="true"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:inputType="numberDecimal"
/>
use this..
editview.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
Best
V.k
Whenever a word is typed in the EditText box, I always see an underline under the word being typed. But when I press a space after that word I no longer see the underline.
My reqirement is to remove that underline when the user is typing the message.
Added is the screenshot and we see that Smith is underlined. But I don't want this to happen.
Below is the xml that I use for the AlertDialog box.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/name_view"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dip"
android:layout_marginRight="20dip"
android:text="#string/alert_dialog_name"
android:gravity="left"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/username_edit"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dip"
android:layout_marginRight="20dip"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:autoText="false"
android:inputType="textPersonName"
android:capitalize="none"
android:gravity="fill_horizontal"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
</LinearLayout>
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
There is a function that removes any composing state. I think if you call it after every time a user types, you will not see the underline. I use it after the user finishes typing, to get the drawing cache of the entire textView (which I need without underline). It's
someTextView.clearComposingText();
You don't have to use any logic to remove the underlines -- just call getText().toString() when you want to use the value. It won't include special formatting or anything.
accepted answer is not given solution, and some other user given answer but no one given full anser, so that's why i write here working solution.
If you want to remove underline then just add below code.
XML
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
Java
EditText ed;
ed = findViewById(yourId);
ed.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);
If you want to set more than one input type then,
ed.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);
May be above information is helpful to others.
The best solution for this is to add on your EditText:
android:inputType="textMultiLine|textVisiblePassword"
Use this from your class, if EditText view is dynamic (created from class file):
EditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);
OR include android:inputType="textNoSuggestions" with your EditText in XML.
Read this if you want to keep emojis and textNoSuggestions doesn't work for you.
textNoSuggestions does not work in every keyboard.
inputType="textVisiblePassword" works but it removes emoji's from most keyboards.
I found that setting inputType="textUri" works and keeps the ability to add emojis.
try:
android:inputType= InputTypes.TextVariationVisiblePassword;
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#null"
android:imeOptions="actionDone"
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
android:maxLines="1"
/>