How to hide underbar in EditText

Question

How can I hide the EditText underbar (the prompt line with little serifs at the ends)?

There might be a better way to do what I want: I have a layout with an EditTe

Answer 1

if your edit text already has a background then you can use following.

android:textCursorDrawable="@null"

Answer 2

android:inputType="textVisiblePassword|textMultiLine" android:background="@android:color/transparent"

...its not the optimal solution but it works.

Answer 3

Set background to null.

android:background="@null"

Answer 4

You can do it programmatically using setBackgroundResource:

editText.setBackgroundResource(android.R.color.transparent);

Answer 5

What I did was to create a Shape drawable and set that as the background:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="rectangle">

    <padding
        android:top="8dp"
        android:bottom="8dp"
        android:left="8dp"
        android:right="8dp" />

    <solid android:color="#fff" />

</shape>

Note: I actually used @dimen and @color values for the firelds, but I've simplified the shape file here for clarity.

Answer 6

You can set EditText's backgroundTint value to a specific color. If you set transparent color, underbar should gone.

android:backgroundTint="@color/Transparent"

<color name="Transparent">#00000000</color>

But you can use this in Api v21(Lollipop) or higher