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Adding a hint in editext after a set text

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!

Android studio editText turns uneditable when selectable

I have an EditText which I want to be editable and selectable, just like any other EditText. My theme is
...Light.NoActionBar
so I need an extra ActionBar for the Copy/Paste etc. when the text is selected.
So I use
editText.setTextIsSelectable()
and it works, but when I enable it, the textView becomes ineditable!
To make it editable again, I use the following
editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
editText.setFocusable(true);
editText.setClickable(true);
editText.setLongClickable(true);
but it doesn't help! Also, it doesn't make a difference whether I assign these tags in the .xml or in the code, I tried that...
I guess the solution is pretty simple, but the API docs and google didn't tell me how to make it editable again... It seems like noone ever had that problem before
EDIT:
xml:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/etMitspieler"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="Players"
android:inputType="textPersonName"
android:text="test"
android:textColor="#android:color/background_light"
some constraint stuff... />

Show Helper text below EditText along with the Hint

I am trying to make something on these lines:
I am able to show the hint using android:hint="Email Address" but unable to show the helper text - This will be your email username
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/et_username"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="15"
android:hint="Username"
app:et_helper="Username is preferably your registered email"/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>`
What I am getting is only and no Username is preferably your registered email below edittext:
Output:
Any pointers appreciated. Thank you.

The best way is to use TextInputLayout. Google introduced it in new design library. In order to use the TextInputLayout you have to add the following to your build.gradle dependencies:
compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0'
Then use it in your xml files:
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/textInputLayout"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Enter your name"/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
You can set your text by setting error true. Altough it is for showing errors but it is suitable for your use. You can change color and typeface if you want.
TextInputLayout til = (TextInputLayout) findViewById(R.id.textInputLayout);
til.setErrorEnabled(true);
til.setError("You need to enter a name");

With Design Support Library 28 , an inbuilt helper Text feature is added in TextInputLayout.
implementation 'com.android.support:design:28.0.0'
Now enable error using xml or programmatically
textInputLayout.isHelperTextEnabled=true
textInputLayout.error="Email can not be Empty!!!"
Also , hint and error can together be used now!!!
Example
et.setOnFocusChangeListener { v, b ->
if (b) {
textInputLayout.helperText = "yourhelperText"
} else {
textInputLayout.helperText = null
if(et.text.toString()==""){ // or any other validation
textInputLayout.error="Email can not be Empty!!!"
}
}
TextInputLayout | Android Developers
EDIT Don't forget to enable error and helperText via xml or programatically.

Full XML with TextInputLayout OutlinedBox style and TextInputEditText
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/til_customer_no"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="5dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:padding="3dp"
app:helperTextEnabled="true"
app:helperText="* Enter customer number that will be used">
<!--android:maxLength="13"-->
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
android:id="#+id/et_customer_no"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Customer No"
android:inputType="number" />
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

The Helper Text is not provided by TextInputLayout. However, the article below has a working example of it. It uses a class that extends from TextInputLayout by adding HelperText as another indicator to the class, working along side with the ErrorText.
https://medium.com/#elye.project/material-login-with-helper-text-232472400c15#.vm28p662v

So what you want is this:
Helper Text
You can achieve this by using this library:
https://github.com/rengwuxian/MaterialEditText
You can set the "helper text" attribute to show the text below the line and the "hint" to show the text above the line. Below is the sample layout for the attached picture
<com.rengwuxian.materialedittext.MaterialEditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Password"
android:inputType="textPassword"
app:met_floatingLabel="normal"
app:met_helperText="Must contain at least 8 characters"
app:met_helperTextAlwaysShown="true"/>

I had similar question asked here.
If you want to keep two EditText views together closed vertically in LinearLayout, I think there is no way. One way, I think, is you can set the android:gravity of top EditText to 'bottom' and 'top' to the lower EditText. But in RelativeLayout, This should be easy.
TextInputLayout can be used if you want to show the hint text (on top of EdiText) even while user typing it. Usually with setting hint to EditText would not work this way. Hint text would disappear after the view is focussed by touching it.

You can simply use app:helperText attribute in TextInputLayout (with library com.google.android.material:material:1.2.1) in this way:
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
...
android:hint="Email Address"
app:helperText="This will be your email username">
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
... />
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
or in programmatically (kotlin) way:
textInputLayout.helperText = "This will be your email username"

Android XML - EditText word-wrapping without newlines

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)

Android: How to set password property in an edit text?

I need to create a login form with 'username' 'password' fields and two buttons 'login' and 'cancel' in my android application.
I am using an alert dialog with edittext inside that.
This is the code I used to create password edittext..
final EditText Password = new EditText(this);
Password.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
Password.setHint("Password");
Password.setWidth(200);
Password.setTransformationMethod(new PasswordTransformationMethod());
login_alert.addView(Password);
My issue is that, plain text is shown instead of 'dots' when i open a softkeypad to edit the password. (It is shown as dots when not in softkeypad mode)
Can anyone suggest a solution?

Password.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD);
This one works for me.
But you have to look at Octavian Damiean's comment, he's right.

This is deprecated
In xml of EditText iclude this attribute: android:password="true"
Edit
android:inputType="textPassword"

Here's a new way of putting dots in password
<EditText
android:id="#+id/loginPassword"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textPassword"
android:hint="#string/pwprompt" /
add android:inputType = "textPassword"

You need to use PasswordTransformationMethod.getInstance() instead of new PasswordTransformationMethod().

The only way that worked for me using code (not XML) is this one:
etPassword.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD);
etPassword.setTransformationMethod(PasswordTransformationMethod.getInstance());

See this link
text view android:password
This applies for EditText as well, as it is a known direct subclass of TextView.

I found when doing this that in order to set the gravity to center, and still have your password hint show when using inputType, the android:gravity="Center" must be at the end of your XML line.
<EditText android:textColor="#000000" android:id="#+id/editText2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:hint="Password"
android:background="#drawable/rounded_corner"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:nextFocusDown="#+id/imageButton1"
android:nextFocusRight="#+id/imageButton1"
android:nextFocusLeft="#+id/editText1"
android:nextFocusUp="#+id/editText1"
android:inputType="textVisiblePassword"
android:textColorHint="#999999"
android:textSize="16dp"
android:gravity="center">
</EditText>

To set password enabled in EditText, We will have to set an "inputType" attribute in xml file.If we are using only EditText then we will have set input type in EditText as given in below code.
<EditText
android:id="#+id/password_Edit"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:hint="password"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:inputType="textPassword"
android:maxLength="100"
android:nextFocusDown="#+id/next"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
Password enable attribute is
android:inputType="textPassword"
But if we are implementing Password EditText with Material Design (With Design support library) then we will have write code as given bellow.
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/txtInput_currentPassword"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
app:passwordToggleEnabled="false"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/password_Edit"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:hint="#string/hint_currentpassword"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:inputType="textPassword"
android:maxLength="100"
android:nextFocusDown="#+id/next"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
#Note: - In Android SDK 24 and above, "passwordToggleEnabled" is by default true. So if we have the customs handling of show/hide feature in the password EditText then we will have to set it false in code as given above in .
app:passwordToggleEnabled="true"
To add above line, we will have to add below line in root layout.
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

My search for a similar solution for Visual Studio 2015/Xamarin lead me to this thread. While setting the EditText.InputType to Android.Text.InputTypes.TextVariationVisiblePassword properly hid the password during user entry, it did not 'hide' the password if it was visible before the EditText Layout was rendered (before the user submitted their password entry). In order to hide a visible password after the user submits their password and the EditText Layout is rendered, I used EditText.TransformationMethod = PasswordTransformationMethod.Instance as suggested by LuxuryMode.