Android EditText setText not updating the text

android, android-edittext, dialog, set, text

Solution

My problem was that below that code, and before the method onCreateDialog ends, I had a few methods controlling a spinner. The first item of that spinner has the purpose of "select nothing" and in that item choice I was just erasing the content of that edit text, like this:

@Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                int pos, long id) {

if(pos == 0){
    if(editText.length() != 0 )
        editText.setText("");
}

And I didnt know that while creating the spinner, it does trigger the event "onItemSelected" and because of that, the edittext was everytime erased, even when I didnt click on that item of the spinner.. So I managed to overcome this by a simple boolean. Every time the method onCreateDialog I put the boolean to true, and then my onItemSelected just operate when that bolean is false. Like the code below:

@Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) {

    if(firstGoingSpinner){
            firstGoingSpinner = false;

        }else{
            if(pos == 0){
                if(editText.length() != 0 )
                    editText.setText("");

            }else{
                editText.setText(""+parent.getItemAtPosition(pos));
                Editable etext = editText.getText();
                Selection.setSelection(etext, editText.length());
            }

        }
    }

I hope this helps someone in the future ;)

Problem

Hi there. I dont know what is happening. I am trying to change the text of an `EditText` when creating a `DialogFragment`, but the `EditText` is not updating the text. If I call `getText().length()` I notice that the content of the `EditText` changed. But, the visual keeps the same, just empty. Why? Thanks in advance people Here is the code: ``` public class ItemNameDialog extends DialogFragment { @Override public Dialog onCreateDialog(final Bundle bundle) { System.out.println("ON CREATE DIALOG WAS CALLED"); //This appears on LogCat, so this method is called.. the problem is not that AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity()); builder.setTitle("Configure an item to count:"); LayoutInflater inflater = getActivity().getLayoutInflater(); View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.itempick_layout, null); builder.setView(view); final CheckBox box = (CheckBox) view.findViewById(R.id.itemSenseCheckBox); final EditText itemNameBox = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.itemNameText); final Spinner spinner = (Spinner) view.findViewById(R.id.itemsDefault); final int viewIDClicked = getArguments().getInt(clickableViewID); final String actualName = getArguments().getString(actualNameItemView); System.out.println("H - before: " + itemNameBox.getText().toString().length()); //it appears on logcat "H - before: 0" itemNameBox.setText(actualName); System.out.println("H - after: " + itemNameBox.getText().toString().length()); //it appears on logcat "H - before: 3" so why not changing ? return builder.create(); } } ```

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