Android EditText Hint

Question

I have set a hint for an EditText  currently the hint visibility is gone  When a user starts typing  I want to remove the hint text  when the cursor is visible in the EditText  not at the time when a user starts to type  How can I do that    lt EditText  android paddingLeft  10dp  android background   drawable edittextbg  android layout marginLeft  4dp  android layout marginTop  7dp  android gravity  left  android id    id Photo Comments   android layout width  150dip   android maxLines  1  android hint  Write Caption  android maxLength  50  android singleLine  true  android maxWidth  100dip  android layout height  wrap content   gt

User · Answer

To complete Sunit s answer  you can use a selector  not to the text string but to the textColorHint   You must add this attribute on your editText   android textColorHint   color text hint selector    And your text hint selector should be    lt selector xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt       lt item android state focused  true  android color   android color transparent    gt       lt item android color   color hint color    gt   lt  selector gt

User · Answer

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

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et setOnFocusChangeListener new View OnFocusChangeListener              Override         public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                 et setHint temp    Characters

User · Answer

You can use the concept of selector  onFocus removes the hint   android hint  Email    So when TextView has focus  or has user input  i e  not empty  the hint will not display

[android] Android EditText Hint

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