Android setError("error") not working in Textview

Question

We can set error in Edittext successfully but failed to set in textview. is there any problem?? i tried

((TextView) findViewById(R.id.df)).requestFocus(); ((TextView) findViewById(R.id.df)).setSelected(true); ((TextView) findViewById(R.id.df)).setError("akjshbd"); 

but i am not getting popup for error.

Answer 1

Default TextView is NOT focusable. So, you need to set android:focusable="true" and android:focusableInTouchMode="true".

<TextView     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:focusable="true"     android:focusableInTouchMode="true"     android:text="@string/hello_world" /> 

And no need to set setSelected(true).

((TextView) findViewById(R.id.df)).requestFocus(); ((TextView) findViewById(R.id.df)).setError("akjshbd"); 

Answer 2

Actually , you can use the setError for the textView and show its popup .

You just need to use the same style as of the EditText .

Simply add the next attribute for the textView in the xml :

style="@android:style/Widget.EditText"