Change Text in EditText when pressing the EditText - android

Some EditText (Like when you write a text message) can be clicked and opened, so you can change the text inside the EditText. It also gives you the keyboard so you can write, etc.
How do I achieve the same thing?
Currently I got this:
public void onDescriptionBoxClick(View view) {
EditText et = (EditText) this.findViewById(R.id.editText1);
}
And I don't know what to do other than that.
Do I have to call the keyboard forth so the user can edit the text in the box?

I would place an EditText element right next to your textView which has the attribute android:visibilty="gone"
then in your code:
public void onDescriptionBoxClick(View view) {
TextView tv = (TextView) this.findViewById(R.id.textView2);
tv.setVisibility(View.GONE);
EditText et = (EditText) this.findViewById(R.id.editText2);
et.setVisibilty(View.VISIBLE);
}

You can't edit text using a TextView. to accomplish what you want you have to replace the TextView with a EditText widget. and then replace it with the TextView containing the text entered in the EditText.
You can accomplish this in a few ways:
Using Fragment, more compicated.
You can use simple TextView and EditText widgets and set their Visability accordingly.

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Assign ID to added EditText Android

Hy, I wanna ask something about dynamic EditText that's added by button click.
I have another scanner Button to scan qr code, get the value and set the value in each EditText added. To set the text I sure need to know the id of each EditText. So how do I assign id to each EditText or there's another way to work around with it.
Inside my add-button onclick
public void addView(View view){
LinearLayout li = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.etMsisdn);
edt = new EditText(this);
edt.setId(0);
li.addView(edt);
}
Thank you very much
Hope to helpful
String strname = "task" + Integer.toString(i);
EditText editText = new EditText(this);
editTextsMap.put(strname, editText);
You can set a tag for your dynamically created EditText with calling setTag(Object tag) method. Then, you can simply find it with calling findViewWithTag() method.
// Dynamically create EditText
EditText editText = new EditText(this);
editText.setTag("editText");
// Find it via tag
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewWithTag("editText");

EditText and button(When button is pressed value shoud be entered in edittext field)

Am creating a calculator,i want when button is pressed for example say 5,how to set value 5 to the button and if that button is clicked . The value should be printed in edit text!!
My source code:
ed=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText);
b=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button);
gt=Double.parseDouble(ed.getText().toString());
ed.setText(""+gt);
}
If I understand your question correctly:
U got some buttons with text or digits.
And if someone presses one of those buttons u want to display the text of the button in your editText box?
If so u can do something like the following:
EditText myEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
Button myButton0= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button0);
myButton0.setOnClickListener( new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//Get the button text and display it in the editText
//This will replace all text in the editText box
myEditText.setText(myButton0.getText().toString());
//Or (Thanks to #cherry-wave)
//This will append the text, instead of replacing
myEditText.setText(myEditText.getText() + myButton0.getText().toString());
}
});
Or (to handle all your buttons with only one method):
Add the following line to all your buttons in your layout xml:
android:onClick="onClick"
And place the following method in your activity class file:
//Your onClick method
public void onClick(View v) {
Button myButton = (Button)v;
//Don't forget to declare your edittext
//This will replace all text in the editText box
myEditText.setText(myButton.getText().toString());
//Or (Thanks to #cherry-wave)
//This will append the text, instead of replacing
myEditText.setText(myEditText.getText() + myButton.getText().toString());
}
Hope this helps u out.
Take the value from button and add to edittext .
Just like this .
editText.setText(btnFive.getText().toString());
Before button click get value from editText .
String edtValue = editText.getText.toString();
Than set editText.setText(edtValue+btnFive.getText().toString());

How to make clickable and editable Textfield in Android?

I am working on Android application in which I want to make my textfield editable and clickable. It has multiple TextFields and EditTexts on my screen. I have "EDIT" TextField for which I want to make it clickable and after clicking I want to make other field editable and enable. Without clicking edit Textfield all of them should not be enable.
My code snippet is given below:
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_user_profile);
fName = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.fnametxt);
lName = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.lastnameTxt);
mailText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mailTxt);
mobileText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mobileTxt);
dobText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.dobTxt);
fName.setText(currentUserFirstName);
lName.setText(currentUserLastName);
dobText.setText("");
mobileText.setText(currentUserContactNumber);
mailText.setText(currentUserEmail);
}
You can't convert TextView to EditText, but you can rather use setEnabled property for EditText
You can use editText.setEnabled(true); to make the EditText editable.
Say you are having two edittexts as follows. And on entering data in first edittext, you need to make edittext2 editable, then you can do this:
EditText edittext1, edittext2;
//findViewByIds for both views
editText1.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start,
int before, int count) {
if(s.length() != 0)
editText2.setEnabled(true);
else
editText2.setEnabled(false);
}
});
Hope this gives a clue how to use it.
EDIT:
Don't get confused between TextField, Button, EditText.
In Android, simple read only field is TextView. Editable textbox is called EditText, and Button is plain Button.
So as per what you are saying, you want tomake EditTexts editable upon clicking of a Button.
Use this:
EditText edittext1, edittext2;
Button button;
//findViewByIds for all views.
buton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
editText1.setEnabled(true);
editText2.setEnabled(true);
}
});
In my opinion, if you want to edit your textfield, then its better to go with EditText. The reason is as follows
The TextView's editable param does make it editable (with some restrictions).
If you set
android:editable="true"
you can access the TextView via the D-pad, or you could add
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
to be able to gain focus on touch.
The problem is you cannot modify the existing text, and you cannot move the cursor. The text you write just gets added before the existing text.

Make a edittext box display on a textview?

I am trying to make an android app for my local fence painting business and I simply want it to calculate quotes and payments. My problem is figuring out how to get a simple input box for the square feet of the fence (edittext) with the help of a button to display a that input to a textview. Will you help me?
Also if there is a different way to do this I would love to hear it.
Thank you!
My problem is figuring out how to get a simple input box for the
square feet of the fence (edittext) with the help of a button to
display a that input to a textview.
Pretty simple. Create a TextView, a Button and an EditText object:
TextView txtView;
Button btn;
EditText edtText;
Initialize them:
txtView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id...);
btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id...);
edtText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id...);
This is how you get the input of the EditText by clicking the Button and set the input to the TextView:
btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
String inputText = edtText.getText().toString(); // Get the input
txtView.setText(inputText); // Set the text to the TextView
}
});

How to convert a TextView to EditText in android?

I am fetching the data from a database and I am appending it to a TextView. When I do long click on TextView I want to convert it to an EditText.
This is how I set the data on my TextView:
TextView text = (TextView) vi.findViewById(R.id.menutext);
text.setText(itemnames[position]);//comes from database append to text view
Now I want to define a setOnLongClickListener to convert it into a EditText.
text.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {
public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
String edititemname=itemnames[position];
System.out.println(edititemname);
return true;
}
});
edititemname holds which item was pressed in a long click. I want to fill the same information into the EdiText. Please help me.
As far as I know you can't convert one to another. What you can is: Have a TextView and an EditText created in xml. EditText is hidden when TextView is showing. Then, on your listener to the onCLick you can:
text.setVisibility(View.GONE);
editText.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
editText.setText(edititemname);
The editText variable can be defined where you define the text. You have to use the findViewById.
I have Tested and it is Working :
final EditText et=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
final TextView tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.txt);
tv.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {
#Override
public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
tv.setVisibility(4);
final EditText et2=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText2);
et2.setVisibility(1);
return false;
}
});
Just Keep EditText as android:visibility="gone"
yes you can for that create a edittext just behind the textview in long press of textView hide textView and show editext as you done hide edittext and make visible textView
as you make invisible textview set edittext text to textview text

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