Android EditText Hint

Question

I have set a hint for an EditText, currently the hint visibility is gone. When a user starts typing, I want to remove the hint text, when the cursor is visible

Answer 1

I don't know whether a direct way of doing this is available or not, but you surely there is a workaround via code: listen for onFocus event of EditText, and as soon it gains focus, set the hint to be nothing with something like editText.setHint(""):

This may not be exactly what you have to do, but it may be something like this-

myEditText.setOnFocusListener(new OnFocusListener(){
  public void onFocus(){
    myEditText.setHint("");
  }
});

Answer 2

To complete Sunit's answer, you can use a selector, not to the text string but to the textColorHint. You must add this attribute on your editText:

android:textColorHint="@color/text_hint_selector"

And your text_hint_selector should be:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_focused="true" android:color="@android:color/transparent" />
    <item android:color="@color/hint_color" />
</selector>

Answer 3

You can use the concept of selector. onFocus removes the hint.

android:hint="Email"

So when TextView has focus, or has user input (i.e. not empty) the hint will not display.

Answer 4

et.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {

            et.setHint(temp +" Characters");
        }
    });