Is there a way to set the background text of an EditText? for instance, I have a login screen with 2 EditText views, one for username and one for password. I want the text "Username" and "Password" be written inside the EditText, and once the user touches those the text disappears but once user deleted his own entry, text re-appears.
Is there a property for that or should I implement this on my own with events and stuff?
The hint property will take care of that for you.
Use hint property, or setHint method.
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I am developing an Android , which has a Text Field.
Every time user presses any key in the text field(EDIT TEXT), I want to to read that in a character variable, perform some action with that variable, and simultaneously empty the text field. In a way, it is a listener to that EditText Field which performs an operation with every key(character) pressed.
Any ideas on how to implement it?
Implement and add a TextWatcher to your EditText: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/TextWatcher.html
You will want to use a TextWatcher.
I need to achieve the similar behavior from the image below. I need to add extra static information inside an EditText in android that does not change according to the user's input (except for the character count).
How do I achieve this? As per I see from the focus, the data is inside the EditText and not out, so i believe this is some sort of style or a custom component.
Many Thanks
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What you could do is make a view group with the text how you want it with an EditText at the top for the user input, then set the background of your view group to android:background="#android:drawable/editbox_background"
use setText() method of EditText with the appropriate BufferType
for the top text, and setHint() for the bottom one.
I have a few forms that the user has to fill in and I use EditText to enter the information.
the problem is, when the user uses the virtual keyboard there no information about which field he is filling in.
so its fine when there is only one field but when he has 4 or more he fills in the first one, presses next and he has to remember what was the second field and so on
is there a way to set a title in the EditText so that instead of being just a text zone it has a title to remind the user what he is inputing ?
You can add a hint, which pre-fills the EditText with a useful reminder (in a faded-out colour). This disappears when the user starts typing.
android:hint="Type your name here"
Unfortunately the input method editor bits don't let you do that (though that would be nice). Try setting the attribute android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" on the EditText instances.
I'm creating a login form for my Android app, i make a single layout for both create account and login, on button click i want to change edit text hint property from 'enter user name' to 'Re enter username' and also want to change other edittext password property to true can any one help me how to change both property from code dynamicaly i saw all methods of edit text but not found any clue.
You can use .setHint() method on either your TextView or EditText.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setHint(int)
EditText is an extended class of TextView. Hence, most of the methods (if not all) of TextView will work well with EditText.
You want to look at its parent class TextView, specifically setHint and setInputType.
Hi friends
I have an editable text box with a default value like to display to the user like "entername". If the user touches the edit box, I want to clear the value of edittext box and show the virtual keypad to the user, and if the user presses the enter key, only in the edit text box, I have to start another activity. How do I do this?
Hi in android:hint at the type of key pressing only it clear value I want to on touch in edit text box clear value and show virtual keypad to user. How do I do this?
Thanks
What?
I really don't understand what you're asking, but it seems like you might be trying to do a hint? Rather than setting an onTouchEvent listener, add a android:hint="What to do" attribute to your EditText.
U use the following code
EditText EditTextName=findViewById(R.id.EditText01);
((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).showSoftInput(EditTextName), 0);
use this code in ontouchListener of EditText
Mohan if I am correct you have two questions here
How to display a hint in an edit box
How get some data from a web service
For the first question you can use android:hint="Enter Name"
For the second one you need to give us more info on what you are trying to do