Android EditText Hint

android

Solution

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("");
  }
});

Problem

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 in the `EditText`, not at the time when a user starts to type. How can I do that? ``` <EditText android:paddingLeft="10dp" android:background="@drawable/edittextbg" android:layout_marginLeft="4dp" android:layout_marginTop="7dp" android:gravity="left" android:id="@+id/Photo_Comments" android:layout_width="150dip" android:maxLines="1" android:hint="Write Caption" android:maxLength="50" android:singleLine="true" android:maxWidth="100dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> ```

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