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Android: TextInputEditText showing text only after change focus

I have a big problem with a EditText that does not show any input until i change focus from element. When I click on the input, the keyboard appears and while i type, there is nothing displayed in the edit text view. The input is shown only when i close the keyboard
It is not a problem of colours. I mention that the view are contained in a constraint layout. I can enable hardware acceleration but this will slow down the application very much and it's not an option. I can however discard the constraint layout and change it to a linear layout but this will affect the rest of the code. I am sure that I am missing something, an easy fix, but i can't put my finger on it. Thanks a lot in advance
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/codeEditTextContainer"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
android:layout_marginRight="30dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#id/verifyButton"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent">
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
android:id="#+id/codeEditText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:inputType="text"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="#string/sms_code"
android:padding="10dp"
android:textColor="#color/white" />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
!!UPDATE
Found the problem, but still i have no answer. This problem is present only on Android Pie and only when the edit text is in the lower part of the screen and has to be raised by the soft keyboard. I already tried to add softInputWindowMode to adjustResize or adjustPan but this is not doing anything.
The problem itself is a duplicate to this question Android Pie edittext does not adjustPan/resize while typing
which still doesn't have an answer

The problem man be about hardwareAccelerated. I was having the same problem and waste too much time to solve before saw this page.
Android Pie edittext does not adjustPan/resize while typing

EditText added is not a TextInputEditText. Please switch to using that class instead

I'm using an EditText inside a TextInputLayout, but after upgrading the support library to 23.2.0, I get this warning in the logcat, What's the difference between a regular EditText and a TextInputEditText? I can't seem to find any documentation for it.

I was wondering this too, Daniel Wilson gathered the documentation, but to the untrained eye it doesn't mean much. Here's what it's all about: "extract mode" is referring to the type of view that's shown when the space is too small, for example landscape on a phone. I'm using Galaxy S4 with Google Keyboard as input method editor (IME).
Landscape UI without visible IME
Based on the focus (on Description) you can see TextInputLayout in action pushing the hint outside the editor. Nothing special here, this is what TextInputLayout is supposed to do.
Landscape UI editing empty Name field
Editing the Name you can see that the IME doesn't give you a hint of what you're editing.
Landscape UI editing empty Description field
Editing the Description you can see that the IME gives you a hint of what you're editing.
Layout XMLs
The difference between the two fields is their type EditText VS TextInputEditText. The important thing here is that TextInputLayout has the android:hint and not the wrapped EditText, this is the case when TextInputEditText's few lines of Java code makes a big difference.
Name field
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Item Name"
>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/name"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
Description field
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Item Description"
>
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
android:id="#+id/description"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:minLines="4"
android:scrollbars="vertical"
/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

There is no documentation for it, but the class is a regular EditText with a single extra feature:
Using this class allows us to display a hint in the IME when in 'extract' mode.
Specifically it sets the EditorInfo.hintText. You'll notice in the TextInputLayout class you can specify the hint and it's appearance rather than as part of the child EditText widget.
If you need to do that, you should use a TextInputEditText so it pays attention to the hint info you specified in the TextInputLayout.

They are essentially the same thing, but I think the TextInputEditText has more features and possibly attributes. I changed to the TextInputEditText and everything worked and looked as it did before with the standard EditText.

The only difference is that when your device is in landscape mode, TextInputEditText will show the hint, EditText won't.

I had this problem and just deleted this line in my xml file:
android: fitsSystemWindows = "true"
and the error disappeared.

MultiAutoCompleteTextView not showing keyboard suggestions

I'm using MultiAutoCompleteTextView in my app. It's an awesome control in Android API. But there are a few issues I'm facing. One, the most annoying is, that on my Nexus 5, it doesnot shows keyboard suggestions. On Xperia Z, shows keyboard suggestions though. Unable to find the cause. Can anybody help/guide me about it? Here the XML of my MultiAutoCompleteTextView.
<MultiAutoCompleteTextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:hint="Post a question, idea or update"
android:gravity="top"
android:textColorHint="#9e9e9e"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textSize="15sp"
android:padding="10dp"
android:background="#null" />

I have looked into the source code and found this in AutoCompleteTextView
// Always turn on the auto complete input type flag, since it
// makes no sense to use this widget without it.
int inputType = getInputType();
if ((inputType&EditorInfo.TYPE_MASK_CLASS)
== EditorInfo.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT) {
inputType |= EditorInfo.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_AUTO_COMPLETE;
setRawInputType(inputType);
}
And in the javaDoc page of the InputType, TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_AUTO_COMPLETE defined as.
Flag for TYPE_CLASS_TEXT: the text editor (which means the application) is performing auto-completion of the text being entered based on its own semantics, which it will present to the user as they type.
It means that you have your own semantics for completion, which means that it is logical for the keyboard to disable its suggestions.
I think when you change the inputType with setInputType() method programatically you can disable this behaviour and get the keyboard suggestions.
You can try this:
mAutoCompletetextView.setInputType(EditText.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | EditText.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_AUTO_CORRECT);

Android EditText doesn't show keyboard hint if use more than one inputType attribute

I'm trying to have an Edit text with keyboard hints and auotcorrection for words (such as when you write a message in whatsapp).
This is my code:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/autoCompleteTextView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_margin="20dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#color/white"
android:ems="10"
android:inputType="textCapSentences|textMultiLine|textAutoCorrect|textAutoComplete"
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
android:hint="#string/note_content"
android:textColor="#color/black_text" />
According with the documentation it should work but it doesn't.
I've also tried using the deprecated android:autoText="true".
I need all the functionallity specified in the InputType
Edit:
After some try I discovered that if I set only one attribute without problem but if I set all of what I need nothing work correctly.
Edit 2:
What I want to obtain is something like the Whatsapp editbox where you write your message.

Maybe it has to do with the input type, have you tried single combinations?
Using a combination of textAutoCorrect and textAutoComplete might not always work

How to reliably disable autosuggest on EditText?

I am trying to disable autosuggest on this EditText, but all the methods outlined don't work with the Japanese IME keyboard and Swype. Is there a way to make it work correctly?
So far, I've tried everything in all kinds of combinations to no avail. Although all solutions work perfectly fine with the default keyboard, users report they still get autosuggest. This is a word game that needs word starting with certain letters, so I really need it.
<EditText
android:id="#+id/txtWord"
android:background="#drawable/textbox_bg"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="right|center_vertical"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:inputType="textFilter|textNoSuggestions|textVisiblePassword"
android:imeOptions="actionNone"
>
<requestFocus />
</EditText>

Everything supplied to attributes like android:inputType are suggestions to the IME, not commands. Some IMEs will honor them, some will not. Hence, you are going to need to design your game such that either you do not care about the suggestions or you do not use an EditText widget.

InputType.TYPE_NULL or 'none' (check the System level attributes for specifics) should work in most cases, but as Mr Murphy says, they're just hints, so may not work (and presumably you can't OR is it anything else).

You can use this :
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
android:privateImeOptions="nm"