Hint and Text in editText at same time

Question

I just need an editText in which i can set Text and hint at the same time. e.g i want user to enter in editText string like user#1234 in this string user# should be text after that numbers will vary so that 1234 should be show as hint when user try to enter cursor will go after # and 1234 hint will gone when user type a character.

Please guide me how to do this.

Thanks

Answer 1

I managed to achieved this with bit of tricks and playing with margin and padding

This is what I did

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:padding="10dp" >

<TextView
    android:layout_width="40dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:gravity="right"
    android:text="user#" />

<EditText
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="1234"
    android:paddingLeft="40dp"
    android:textSize="14sp" />

</RelativeLayout>

Hope this will help you out