How to create EditText with cross(x) button at end of it?

Question

Use the following layout:

<FrameLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="9dp"
    android:padding="5dp">

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/calc_txt_Prise"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:inputType="numberDecimal"  
        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:textSize="25dp"
        android:textColor="@color/gray"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:hint="@string/calc_txt_Prise"
        android:singleLine="true" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/calc_clear_txt_Prise"      
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
        android:layout_gravity="right|center_vertical"
        android:background="@drawable/delete" />

</FrameLayout>

You can also use the button's id and perform whatever action you want on its onClickListener method.

2020 solution via Material Design Components for Android:

Add Material Components to your gradle setup:

Look for latest version from here: https://maven.google.com/

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.3.0'

or if you havent updated to using AndroidX libs, you can add it this way:

implementation 'com.android.support:design:28.0.0'

Then

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="@string/hint_text"
    app:endIconMode="clear_text">

  <com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

Pay attention to: app:endIconMode="clear_text"

As discussed here Material design docs

If you happen to use DroidParts, I've just added ClearableEditText.

Here's what it looks like with a custom background & clear icon set to abs__ic_clear_holo_light from ActionBarSherlock:

This is a kotlin solution. Put this helper method in some kotlin file-

fun EditText.setupClearButtonWithAction() {

    addTextChangedListener(object : TextWatcher {
        override fun afterTextChanged(editable: Editable?) {
            val clearIcon = if (editable?.isNotEmpty() == true) R.drawable.ic_clear else 0
            setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(0, 0, clearIcon, 0)
        }

        override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, after: Int) = Unit
        override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, before: Int, count: Int) = Unit
    })

    setOnTouchListener(View.OnTouchListener { _, event ->
        if (event.action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
            if (event.rawX >= (this.right - this.compoundPaddingRight)) {
                this.setText("")
                return@OnTouchListener true
            }
        }
        return@OnTouchListener false
    })
}

And then use it as following in the onCreate method and you should be good to go-

yourEditText.setupClearButtonWithAction()

BTW, you have to add R.drawable.ic_clear or the clear icon at first. This one is from google- https://fonts.google.com/icons?selected=Material%20Icons%20Outlined%3Aclear%3A

Android's support libarary has a SearchView class that does exactly this. (Not derrived from EditText though, so have to use a SearchView.OnQueryTextListener instead of a TextWatcher)

Use in XML like so:

  <android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
            android:id="@+id/searchView"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:iconifiedByDefault="false"
            android:queryHint="@string/SearchHint"
            app:iconifiedByDefault="false"
            app:queryHint="@string/SearchHint" />

Drawable x = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.x);
x.setBounds(0, 0, x.getIntrinsicWidth(), x.getIntrinsicHeight());
mEditText.setCompoundDrawables(null, null, x, null);

where, x is: