I don't know whether a direct way of doing this is available or not, but you surely there is a workaround via code: listen for onFocus event of EditText, and as soon it gains focus, set the hint to be nothing with something like editText.setHint(""):
This may not be exactly what you have to do, but it may be something like this-
myEditText.setOnFocusListener(new OnFocusListener(){
public void onFocus(){
myEditText.setHint("");
}
});