How to change hint text size without changing the text size in EditText

Question

I have a EditText input field. I have added a hint in it. Now i want to change the size of hint text, but when i do this, it also effects the size of the text. Kindly guide me how to change the size of hint and text separately, and give different fonts to both the hint and the text.

<EditText
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="50dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:textSize="12sp"
    android:textColor="#ffffff"                            
    android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
    android:hint="MM/YY"
    android:textColorHint="@color/white" />  

Answer 1

You can set it in resource file.

For example:

<string name="hint"><font size="20">Hint!</font></string>

And your XML:

android:hint="@string/hint"

Answer 2

The hint and the text are exclusive, if one of them is visible, the other one is not.

Because of this, you could just change the attributes of your EditText depending on if it's empty (the hint is visible) or not (the text is visible).

For example:

final EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourEditText);

editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
    boolean hint;

    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
        if(s.length() == 0) {
            // no text, hint is visible
            hint = true;
            editText.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 12);
            editText.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),
                "hintFont.ttf")); // setting the font
        } else if(hint) {
            // no hint, text is visible
            hint = false;
            editText.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 16);
            editText.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),
                "textFont.ttf")); // setting the font
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
    }
});