Android EditText Hint Size

Question

How to reduce EditText Hint size?

Answer 1

You can do it by setting a size in the string recource.

For example:

<string name="edittext_hint"><font size="15">Hint here!</font></string> 

then in your XML just write

android:hint="@string/edittext_hint" 

This will resault in a smaller text for the hint but the original size for the input text.

Hopes this helps for future readers

Answer 2

You can reduce the font size on the EditText - that will reduce the size of the hint as well. i.e. android:textSize="16sp"