Getting started with android-edittext

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This section provides an overview of what android-edittext is, and why a developer might want to use it.

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Styling In EditText

Changing the edit text’s appearance when it’s selected, pressed and not selected can be customised easily by adding creating a new style for your edit text like so

<style name="EditTextTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/accent</item>
</style>

And then add this style to your EditText like

<EditText
    android:width="wrap_content"
    android:height="wrap_content"
    style="@style/EditTextTheme" />

Specifying Text Hints

It is possible to specify a text hint when using EditTexts. Text hints are useful for conveying to the user what they should type in the EditText.

In XML:

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="username" />

The content of the hint (in our example, ‘username’) can be anything you like.