I would like to make an EditText field in an Android application asking the user to give a URL.
I noticed when you type a URL in the "Internet" application, a keyboard that has "www." and ".com" buttons appears .
How can I make my EditText pop that keyboard instead of the regular one?
In android EditText is a user interface control which is used to accept input from the user or to edit the text. EditText is nothing but a text field in HTML which accepts input.EditText is a sub class of TextView that configures itself to be editable. Check this android UI controls tutorial to know more about UI controls.
1 Create a new project in Android Studio and name it EditTextExample. Select File -> New -> New Project and Fill the forms and click "Finish" button. 2 Now Open res -> layout -> xml (or) activity_main.xml and add following code. ... 3 Now open app -> java -> package -> MainActivity.java and add the below code. ...
textStyle : textStyle attribute is used to style the text of the EditText.There are three values for a textStyle attribute like normal, bold, italic .By default it is normal .If we want to use more than one value at a time we can use “|” operator. like bold | italic. Example code snippet for setting text style of a EditText in XML.
This enables a user to user to write URL only. To create a new project in Android Studio please refer to How to Create/Start a New Project in Android Studio. Note that select Java as the programming language. Navigate to the app > res > layout > activity_main.xml and add the below code to that file.
You can use below code for EditText
android:inputType="textUri"
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