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

Set background to null

android:background="@null" in your xml 

Answer 2

if you are using background then you must use this tag

android:testCursorDrawable="@null" 

Answer 3

android:background="@android:color/transparent"

Or

android:background="@null"

Answer 4

Simply Use This

 editText.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

Answer 5

If you are using the EditText inside TextInputLayout use app:boxBackgroundMode="none" as following:

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    app:boxBackgroundMode="none"
    ...
    >

    <EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

Answer 6

You can also define a STYLE for your editText so you can regroup all properties in common. It is very powerful if you have to multiple edit text that need to has the behaviour

Put the code in res/values/styles.xml

<style name="MyEditTextStyle" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.EditText">
    <item name="android:background">@color/transparence</item> //NO UNDERBAR
    <item name="android:maxLines">1</item>
    <item name="android:height">28dp</item> //COMMON HEIGHT
</style>

After that you just need to call it in your editText

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/edit1"
    style="@style/MyEditTextStyle"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/edit2"
    style="@style/MyEditTextStyle"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />