setText doesn't set text to EditText
android, android-edittext, settext
Solution
`onActivityResult()` is not the last method called when returning to an Activity. You can refresh your memory of the Life Cycle in the docs. :)
As we discussed in the comments, if you call `setText()` again in methods like `onResume()` this will override any text set in `onActivityResult()`.
The same goes for Fragments, you need to make updates in onViewStateRestored() method (which was added in API 17).
Problem
I'm having a problem that I've never had before in almost three years of developing with Android... I want to take a picture and after the picture is taked, the `EditText`s of the activity become clear. What I'm doing is set the values of the `EditText` to `Strings` using `getText().toString()` to restore them after taking the picture. The strings are stored perfectly with the data, but when I use `setText`, it doesn't work... The strange thing is that `setHint` works! How can it be? Here's the code I'm using: ``` @Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { if (requestCode == CAPTURE_IMAGE_ACTIVITY_REQUEST_CODE) { if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) { // Image captured and saved to fileUri specified in the Intent grabImage(imgView); for (int u = 0; u <= 2; u++) { if (savedImgs[u].equals("")) { imgs = u + 1; savedImgs[u] = photo.toString(); break; } } /*Bitmap thumbnail = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data"); ---> It is a small bitmap, for icons... imgView.setImageBitmap(thumbnail); imgView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);*/ } else if (resultCode == RESULT_CANCELED) { // User cancelled the image capture } else { Toast.makeText(this, "Image couldn't be taken. Try again later.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } } if (!tempSpotName.equals("") || !tempSpotDesc.equals("")) { name.setText(tempSpotName); description.setText(tempSpotDesc); } } ``` `name` and `description` are global `EditTexts` and `tempSpotName` and `tempSpotDesc` are global `Strings`. How can I set the text?