Android add placeholder text to EditText

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How can I add a placeholder text to EditText in the class that isn t in the XML   I have the following EditText in my code which will be shown in alertdialog       final EditText name   new EditText this

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If you mean the location where you will add it in the layout  You can define a container like a FrameLayout and add this EditText to it when it is created    lt LinearLayout xmlns       gt       lt FrameLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android          android id    id container  android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content    gt   lt  LinearLayout gt   FrameLayout layout    FrameLayout  findViewById R id container   layout addView name

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In Android Studio you can add Hint  Place holder  through GUI  First select EditText field on designer view  Then Click on Component Tree Left side of IDE  Normally it s there  but it may be there minimized  There you can see Properties of selected EditText  Find Hint field as below Image    There you can add Hint Place holder  to EditText

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In your Activity   lt EditText                 android layout width  fill parent                  android layout height  wrap content                  android layout marginBottom  10dp                  android background   null                  android hint  Text Example                  android padding  5dp                  android singleLine  true                  android id    id name                  android textColor   color magenta   gt

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This how to make input password that has hint which not converted to        On XML     android inputType  textPassword  android gravity  center  android ellipsize  start  android hint  Input Password       thanks to   mango and rjrjr for the insight  D

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You have to use the android hint attribute   lt EditText android id    id message  android hint   lt  lt Your placeholder gt  gt     gt    In Android Studio  you can switch from XML -  Design View and click on the Component in the layout  the EditText field in this case  This will show all the applicable attributes for that GUI component  This will be handy when you don t know about all the attributes that are there   You would be surprised to see that EditText has more than 140 attributes for customization

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If you want to insert text inside your EditText view that stays there after the field is selected  unlike how hint behaves   do this   In Java      Cast Your EditText as a TextView   TextView  findViewById R id email   setText  your Text       In Kotlin      Cast your EditText into a TextView    Like this  findViewById R id email  as TextView  text    Your Text     Or simply like this findViewById lt TextView gt  R id email  text    Your Text

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Ah  ok  What you re looking for is setHint int   Simply pass in a resource id of a string from your xml and you re good to go      EDIT  And in XML  it s simply android hint  someText

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android hint  text  provides an info for user that what he need to fill in particular editText  for example  - i have two edittext one for numeric value and other for string value   we can set a hint for user so he can understand that what value he needs to give  android hint  Please enter phone number  android hint  Enter name     after running app these two edittext will show the entered hint  after click on edit text it goes and user can enter what he want  see luxurymode image

[android] Android add placeholder text to EditText

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