Android - default value in editText

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In my app I have an edit user details page and I want to display the current name  email address etc in the corresponding editText fields and then the user can just erase that and enter a new one if they want   Is there a way to do this  Thanks for any help

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There is the hint feature  You can use the setHint   to set it  or set it in XML  though you probably don t want that  because the XML doesn t  know  the name adress of your user

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You can use EditText setText      to set the current text of an EditText field   Example   yourEditText setText currentUserName

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From the xml     android text  yourtext

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public class Main extends Activity        Override     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout activity main           EditText et    EditText  findViewById R id et           EditText et city    EditText  findViewById R id et city              Set the default text of second EditText widget         et city setText  USA

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Use android android hint for set default value or android text

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You can do it in this way  private EditText nameEdit  private EditText emailEdit  private String nameDefaultValue    Your Name   private String emailDefaultValue    abc xyz com     and inside onCreate method  nameEdit    EditText  findViewById R id name       nameEdit setText nameDefaultValue        nameEdit setOnTouchListener  new OnTouchListener               Override         public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event                if  nameEdit getText   toString   equals nameDefaultValue                    nameEdit setText                                return false                         nameEdit setOnFocusChangeListener new OnFocusChangeListener               Override         public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                               if  hasFocus  amp  amp  TextUtils isEmpty nameEdit getText   toString                      nameEdit setText nameDefaultValue                 else if  hasFocus  amp  amp  nameEdit getText   toString   equals nameDefaultValue                    nameEdit setText                                                emailEdit    EditText findViewById R id email       emailEdit setText emailDefaultValue          emailEdit setOnFocusChangeListener new OnFocusChangeListener               Override         public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                               if  hasFocus  amp  amp  TextUtils isEmpty emailEdit getText   toString                      emailEdit setText emailDefaultValue                 else if  hasFocus  amp  amp  emailEdit getText   toString   equals emailDefaultValue                    emailEdit setText

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We wish there is a default value attribute in each view of android views or group view in future versions of SDK  but to overcome that  simply before submission  check if the view is empty equal true  then assign a default value example        add 0 as default numeric value to a price field when skipped by a user                      in order to avoid parsing error of empty or improper format value                         if  Objects requireNonNull edPrice getText    toString   trim   isEmpty                        edPrice setText  quot 0 quot

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First you need to load the user details somehow  Then you need to find your EditText if you don t have it-  EditText et    EditText findViewById R id youredittext    after you ve found your EditText  call   et setText theUserName

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You can use text property in your xml file for particular Edittext fields  For example     lt EditText     android id    id ET User      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android text  yourusername   gt    like this all Edittext fields contains text whatever u want if  user wants to  change particular Edittext field he remove older text and enter his new text   In Another way just you get the particular Edittext field id in activity class and set text to that one   Another way   programmatically  Example   EditText username  EditText findViewById R id ET User    username setText  jack

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