How to give the hint of edittextbox of dialog which is created by code in android

Question

I am creating a dialog box where there is a edit box I want to set the hint of editbox how can I do it.

please help me thank you

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 19 '12 at 07:56

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Every EditText is also TextView and the TextView defines a method setHint():

final void setHint(int resid)

Doesn't this work?

EDIT Btw by edit box you mean EditText right?

answered Jan 19 '12 at 07:56

Boris Strandjev

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '12 at 08:04

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I am not sure whether this works but might help you,

You could have initialized your Dialog with something like this,

         Dialog dialog = null;

And now to Initialize your EditText you should use something like this,

      edittext = (EditText) dialog. findViewById(R.id.editbox);

Now use the below method. It should do the trick,

            edittext.setHint("Hint");

answered Jan 19 '12 at 08:04

Andro Selva

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 01 '12 at 06:52

The same you can provide in the XML file also by adding :

android:hint="Text For Hint"

tag.

For dynamically adding it (in your code and not in XML), Boris & Androi have aldready mentioned it, so wont repeat it.

If you wont be changing once set, then I guess adding in XML is preferred rather than in code.

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