In a browser we click on search box whole text got selected. like that how to enable this in android EditText. When click on EditText, whole text in it got selected.
Its my first question so please don't critic it.
editText.setSelectAllOnFocus(true);
You can add it in EditText
android:selectAllOnFocus="true"
Use android:selectAllOnFocus
If the text is selectable, select it all when the view takes focus.
May be a boolean value, such as "true" or "false".
From XML
android:selectAllOnFocus="true"
FROM java
YourEditText.setSelectAllOnFocus(true);
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I have a design where the editText should have some hidden chars set as password. And after clicking edittext, they should disappear.
Just like this, the circles should be there however once clicked or when eye icon(for making it visible) is clicked, nothing should be there.
android:hint="•••••••"
decided to do so
You need to add these 2 lines in your EditText code;
android:inputType="textPassword"
android:hint="●●●●●●
how to hide underline when entering text in edit text?
given inputType = text, I'm able to see the line coming under words and giving space and entering the next word line in the first word disappears. Is this a default behaviour? when inputType is given as android:inputType="text|textVisiblePassword"
when entering characters line is not visible can any one suggest me text|textVisiblePassword is correct to use for edit text to make the line disappear?
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
You have to disable a spelling checker in edittext using this code :
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
From xml, disable a spelling checker in edittext:
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
OR
Programmatically you can use:
editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);
Apply this code in EditText XML.
android:background="#null"
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Try this in XML :
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
I have five edittext in my layout. by default when i click on any of the edittext the virtual keyboard shows like following
Is it possible to modify the behavior of enter key ? I want when the key pressed the focus should be transferred to next edit text. Keyboard should look like
notice the change in enter key and also suggestions are disabled. Is there any way to achieve it ?
To disable text suggestions, add the following parameter to your EditText:
<EditText
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
(…)
/>
And to go to the next field upon pressing "enter" add the ID of the next field on the following parameter:
<EditText
android:nextFocusForward="#+id/nextEditTextId"
(…)
/>
Details can be found here.
Hope it helps!
When the user long-touches/long-clicks in the EditText, my app always selects all text. How do you instead make the EditText not select all, and instead select only the user-selected text?
I read Select all text inside EditText when it gets focus
then tried explicitly setting android:selectAllOnFocus="false"but that is not working. Double tapping or any other click length doesn't work either.
To override OnLongClickListener might work, but I don't know how to get the user's start and end selected index.
For those who are coming across this question in the future, the (or at least a) solution is to add the textLongMessage option to android:inputType:
<EditText
...
android:inputType="textLongMessage" >
<!-- Or you might have multiple input types -->
<EditText
...
android:inputType="textLongMessage|textMultiLine|textNoSuggestions" >
This will make the EditText's behavior be to select a single word from the text.
Try reading these liknks and see if they help:
how to NOT select all on EditText long click
how to NOT select all on EditText long click
You can try in your main.xml file:
android:selectAllOnFocus="true"
working on an application
i need to take an EditText.
but i need as in the phone :-
The EditText already contains blurred text such as "Your Name" when you start typing the text vanishes and you text is shown. I hope you've seen this effect/property..
I'm not getting what this property is called to be searched on google...
Hint
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:hint
Use the following in your layout.xml file of edittext:
android:hint="Here your hint text"