TextView to display hint before text entered

Question

How do I put text into empty TextView so it goes away when user starts typing? Just like here in StackOverflow under \"Tags\" field.

Same approach used in GMail clie

Answer 1

Throw an android:hint="hint text" into your EditText xml tag.

Answer 2

As haphazard said or programatically you can use...

setHint(CharSequence hint) or setHint(int resId).

The equivalent to the resource id in xml would be android:hint="@string/hint_text" (for example).