How to add watermark in android widget EditText?

Question

Please provide the implementation of watermark text in EditText widget of android,even after Googling it, but cannot find proper solution!

Answer 1

If by "watermark text" you mean the text which appears in the field when it is empty, then use the attribute android:hint="My Text" in the layout or programmatically call setHint( "My Text" ) on your EditText object.