Android EditText: select all text while touch and clear when user starts typing.

Question

I have a edit text in my app. When the user touches the edit text the whole text should be selected and when he starts typing text should be cleared. An example is browser addre

Answer 1

Call EditText.setSelectAllOnFocus(boolean selectAllOnFocus) to select all text on focus.

Set a click listener to your EditText and in onClick call edittext.selectAll();