Android How to set password property in an edit text

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I need to create a login form with  username   password  fields and two buttons  login  and  cancel  in my android application    I am using an alert dialog with edittext inside that    This is the code I used to create password edittext         final EditText Password   new EditText this        Password setGravity Gravity CENTER        Password setHint  Password         Password setWidth 200         Password setTransformationMethod new PasswordTransformationMethod          login alert addView Password     My issue is that  plain text is shown instead of  dots  when i open a softkeypad to edit the password   It is shown as dots when not in softkeypad mode   Can anyone suggest a solution

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I found when doing this that in order to set the gravity to center  and still have your password hint show when using inputType  the android gravity  Center  must be at the end of your XML line    lt EditText android textColor   000000  android id    id editText2       android layout width  fill parent  android hint  Password       android background   drawable rounded corner       android layout height  fill parent       android nextFocusDown    id imageButton1       android nextFocusRight    id imageButton1       android nextFocusLeft    id editText1      android nextFocusUp    id editText1       android inputType  textVisiblePassword       android textColorHint   999999       android textSize  16dp       android gravity  center  gt   lt  EditText gt

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My search for a similar solution for Visual Studio 2015 Xamarin lead me to this thread   While setting the EditText InputType to  Android Text InputTypes TextVariationVisiblePassword properly hid the password during user entry  it did not  hide  the password if it was visible before the EditText Layout was rendered  before the user submitted their password entry    In order to hide a visible password after the user submits their password and the EditText Layout is rendered  I used EditText TransformationMethod   PasswordTransformationMethod Instance as suggested by LuxuryMode

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This is deprecated  In xml of EditText iclude this attribute  android password  true    Edit  android inputType  textPassword

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See this link  text view android password  This applies for EditText as well  as it is a known direct subclass of TextView

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The only way that worked for me using code  not XML  is this one   etPassword setInputType InputType TYPE TEXT VARIATION PASSWORD   etPassword setTransformationMethod PasswordTransformationMethod getInstance

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Password setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT   InputType TYPE TEXT VARIATION PASSWORD     This one works for me  But you have to look at Octavian Damiean s comment  he s right

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Here s a new way of putting dots in password   lt EditText     android id    id loginPassword      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content      android inputType  textPassword      android hint   string pwprompt      add android inputType    textPassword

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You need to use PasswordTransformationMethod getInstance   instead of new PasswordTransformationMethod

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To set password enabled in EditText  We will have to set an  inputType  attribute in xml file If we are using only EditText then we will have set input type in EditText as given in below code                        lt EditText                     android id    id password Edit                      android focusable  true                      android focusableInTouchMode  true                      android hint  password                      android imeOptions  actionNext                      android inputType  textPassword                      android maxLength  100                      android nextFocusDown    id next                      android layout width  match parent                      android layout height  match parent    gt    Password enable attribute is    android inputType  textPassword    But if we are implementing Password EditText with Material Design  With Design support library  then we will have write code as given bellow    lt android support design widget TextInputLayout                 xmlns app  http   schemas android com apk res-auto                  android id    id txtInput currentPassword                  android layout width  match parent                  app passwordToggleEnabled  false                  android layout height  wrap content  gt                    lt EditText                     android id    id password Edit                      android focusable  true                      android focusableInTouchMode  true                      android hint   string hint currentpassword                      android imeOptions  actionNext                      android inputType  textPassword                      android maxLength  100                      android nextFocusDown    id next                      android layout width  match parent                      android layout height  match parent    gt               lt  android support design widget TextInputLayout gt     Note  - In Android SDK 24 and above   passwordToggleEnabled  is by default true  So if we have the customs handling of show hide feature in the password EditText then we will have to set it false in code as given above in    app passwordToggleEnabled  true    To add above line  we will have to add below line in root layout   xmlns app  http   schemas android com apk res-auto

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