How to clear an EditText on click

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In Android how can I make an EditText clear when it s clicked   E g   if I have an EditText with some characters in  such as  Enter Name   when the user clicks on it these characters disappear

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Code for clearing up the text field when clicked   lt EditText android onClick  TextFieldClicked   gt   public void TextFieldClicked View view               if view getId    R id editText1              text setText

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For me the easiest way     Create an public EditText  for Example  myEditText1   public EditText myEditText1    Then  connect it with the EditText which should get cleared  myEditText1    EditText  findViewById R id numberfield     After that  create an void which reacts to an click to the EditText an let it clear the Text inside it when its Focused  for Example   OnClick R id numberfield          void textGone                if  myEditText1 isFocused                     myEditText1 setText                         Hope i could help you  Have a nice Day everyone

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after onclick of any action do below step    EditText  findViewById R id yoursXmlId   setText        or  write this in XML file   lt EditText ---------- other stuffs ------  android hint  Enter Name    gt     its works fine for me  Hope to you all

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Be careful when setting text with an onClick listener on the field you are setting the text  I was doing this and setting the text to an empty string  This was causing the pointer to come up to indicate where my cursor was  which will normally go away after a few seconds  When I did not wait for it to go away before leaving my page causing finish   to be called  it would cause a memory leak and crash my app  Took me a while to figure out what was causing the crash on this one    Anyway  I would recommend using selectAll   in your on click listener rather than setText   if you can  This way  once the text is selected  the user can start typing and all of the previous text will be cleared   pic of the suspect pointer  http   i stack imgur com juJnt png

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Are you looking for behavior similar to the x that shows up on the right side of text fields on an iphone that clears the text when tapped   It s called clearButtonMode there   Here is how to create that same functionality in an Android EditText view   String value        any text you are pre-filling in the EditText  final EditText et   new EditText this   et setText value   final Drawable x   getResources   getDrawable R drawable presence offline    your x image  this one from standard android images looks pretty good actually x setBounds 0  0  x getIntrinsicWidth    x getIntrinsicHeight     et setCompoundDrawables null  null  value equals       null   x  null   et setOnTouchListener new OnTouchListener          Override     public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event            if  et getCompoundDrawables   2     null                return false                    if  event getAction      MotionEvent ACTION UP                return false                    if  event getX    gt  et getWidth   - et getPaddingRight   - x getIntrinsicWidth                  et setText                  et setCompoundDrawables null  null  null  null                     return false            et addTextChangedListener new TextWatcher          Override     public void onTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int before  int count            et setCompoundDrawables null  null  et getText   toString   equals       null   x  null               Override     public void afterTextChanged Editable arg0                Override     public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int count  int after

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I m not sure if you are after this  but try this XML   android hint  Enter Name    It displays that text when the input field is empty  selected or unselected   Or if you want it to do exactly as you described  assign a onClickListener on the editText and set it empty with setText

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To clear When Clear Button is Clicked     firstName    EditText  findViewById R id firstName         clear    Button  findViewById R id clearsearchSubmit        clear setOnClickListener new OnClickListener               Override         public void onClick View v                   TODO Auto-generated method stub             if  v getId      R id clearsearchSubmit               firstName setText                          This will help to clear the wrong keywords that you have typed in so instead of pressing backspace again and again you can simply click the button to clear everything It Worked For me  Hope It Helps

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Harris s answer is great  I ve implemented it as a separate subclass of EditText  which can make it easier to use if your code already adds TextChangedListeners   Also  I ve tweaked it so that  if you already use any Compound Drawables  it leaves them intact   Code is here  for anyone who needs it   package com companyname your  import android content Context  import android graphics drawable Drawable  import android text Editable  import android text TextWatcher  import android util AttributeSet  import android view MotionEvent  import android view View  import android widget EditText   public class ClearableEditText extends EditText        public String defaultValue           final Drawable imgX   getResources   getDrawable android R drawable presence offline       X image       public ClearableEditText Context context            super context            init               public ClearableEditText Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyle            super context  attrs  defStyle            init               public ClearableEditText Context context  AttributeSet attrs            super context  attrs            init                void init                  Set bounds of our X button         imgX setBounds 0  0  imgX getIntrinsicWidth    imgX getIntrinsicHeight                       There may be initial text in the field  so we may need to display the button         manageClearButton             this setOnTouchListener new OnTouchListener                  Override             public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event                     ClearableEditText et   ClearableEditText this                      Is there an X showing                  if  et getCompoundDrawables   2     null  return false                     Only do this for up touches                 if  event getAction      MotionEvent ACTION UP  return false                     Is touch on our clear button                  if  event getX    gt  et getWidth   - et getPaddingRight   - imgX getIntrinsicWidth                          et setText                          ClearableEditText this removeClearButton                                      return false                                     this addTextChangedListener new TextWatcher                  Override             public void onTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int before  int count                     ClearableEditText this manageClearButton                                Override             public void afterTextChanged Editable arg0                                Override             public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int count  int after                                         void manageClearButton             if  this getText   toString   equals                   removeClearButton            else             addClearButton              void addClearButton             this setCompoundDrawables this getCompoundDrawables   0                    this getCompoundDrawables   1                   imgX                  this getCompoundDrawables   3              void removeClearButton             this setCompoundDrawables this getCompoundDrawables   0                    this getCompoundDrawables   1                   null                  this getCompoundDrawables   3

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EditText  findViewById R id User   setText        EditText  findViewById R id Password   setText

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that is called hint in android use  android hint  Enter Name

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If you want to have text in the edit text and remove it like you say  try       final EditText text box    EditText  findViewById R id input box       text box setOnFocusChangeListener new OnFocusChangeListener                  Override         public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                         if  hasFocus  true                                if  text box getText   toString   compareTo  Enter Text    0                                        text box setText

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