Android EditText Hint Size

Question

How to reduce EditText Hint size?

Answer 1

define this in your strings.xml in values folder :

<string name="enter_otp"><font size="16">your text</font></string>

Answer 2

You can change not only a hint's size but also its font and style. I achieved to solve it using SpannableString and MetricAffectingSpan

1) Create a custom Hint object:

import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.text.SpannableString;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.text.style.MetricAffectingSpan;

public class CustomHint extends SpannableString
{
    public CustomHint(final CharSequence source, final int style)
    {
        this(null, source, style, null);
    }

    public CustomHint(final CharSequence source, final Float size)
    {
        this(null, source, size);
    }

    public CustomHint(final CharSequence source, final int style, final Float size)
    {
        this(null, source, style, size);
    }

    public CustomHint(final Typeface typeface, final CharSequence source, final int style)
    {
        this(typeface, source, style, null);
    }

    public CustomHint(final Typeface typeface, final CharSequence source, final Float size)
    {
        this(typeface, source, null, size);
    }

    public CustomHint(final Typeface typeface, final CharSequence source, final Integer style, final Float size)
    {
        super(source);

        MetricAffectingSpan typefaceSpan = new CustomMetricAffectingSpan(typeface, style, size);
        setSpan(typefaceSpan, 0, source.length(), Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
    }
}

2) Create custom MetricAffectingSpan object:

import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.text.style.MetricAffectingSpan;

public class CustomMetricAffectingSpan extends MetricAffectingSpan
{
    private final Typeface _typeface;
    private final Float    _newSize;
    private final Integer  _newStyle;

    public CustomMetricAffectingSpan(Float size)
    {
        this(null, null, size);
    }

    public CustomMetricAffectingSpan(Float size, Integer style)
    {
        this(null, style, size);
    }

    public CustomMetricAffectingSpan(Typeface type, Integer style, Float size)
    {
        this._typeface = type;
        this._newStyle = style;
        this._newSize = size;
    }

    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds)
    {
        applyNewSize(ds);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateMeasureState(TextPaint paint)
    {
        applyNewSize(paint);
    }

    private void applyNewSize(TextPaint paint)
    {
        if (this._newStyle != null)
            paint.setTypeface(Typeface.create(this._typeface, this._newStyle));
        else
            paint.setTypeface(this._typeface);

        if (this._newSize != null)
            paint.setTextSize(this._newSize);
    }
}

3) Use:

Typeface newTypeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "AguafinaScript-Regular.ttf");
CustomHint customHint = new CustomHint(newTypeface, "Enter some text", Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC, 60f);
        //        CustomHint customHint = new CustomHint(newTypeface, "Enter some text", Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);
        //        CustomHint customHint = new CustomHint(newTypeface, "Enter some text", 60f);
        //        CustomHint customHint = new CustomHint("Enter some text", Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC, 60f);
        //        CustomHint customHint = new CustomHint("Enter some text", Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);
        //        CustomHint customHint = new CustomHint("Enter some text", 60f);

customEditText.setHint(customHint);

Answer 3

it is easy to reduce the hint size of the edittext

editText.setHint(Html.fromHtml(
    "<font size=\"5\">" + "hinttext1" + "</font>" + 
    "<small>" + "hinttext2" + "</small>" )); 

Answer 4

I need to set a larger size for real text than hint.

public static class LargeSizeTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {

    private final EditText mEditText;
    private final int mOriginalSize;
    private final int mLargeSize;

    private int mLastLength;

    TrackingNumberTextWatcher(EditText editText) {
        mEditText = editText;
        mOriginalSize = (int) editText.getTextSize();
        mLargeSize = editText.getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.text_size_large);

        mLastLength = editText.length();
        if (mLastLength != 0) {
            mEditText.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, mLargeSize);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
        int length = s.length();
        if (length == 0) {
            mEditText.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, mOriginalSize);
        } else if (mLastLength == 0) {
            mEditText.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, mLargeSize);
        }
        mLastLength = length;
    }
}

Answer 5

You can set simple HTML attributes to the hint string itself.

See accepted answer here: Android EditText hint

EDIT: just played with it myself, this worked for me:

view.setHint(Html.fromHtml("<small><small><small>" + 
             getString(R.string.hint) + "</small></small></small>"));

This is a list of tags accepted by fromHtml: http://commonsware.com/blog/Android/2010/05/26/html-tags-supported-by-textview.html (though didn't work for me)

Answer 6

You can reduce the font size on the EditText - that will reduce the size of the hint as well. i.e. android:textSize="16sp"