How to make Edit Text hint appear when typing

Question

I would like for my app to be able to display different hints in the edittext at different times, so i have to set the hint pro-grammatically at each times as below.

editText.setHint("Hint 1");

But the problem is when i starts typing the hint starts disappearing.I want to show this hint every time.If i set the hint in xml it will not disappear while typing, but how to do this in my case.

Answer 1

Either you should consider to change to TextInputLayout(Strongly recommended this. Here is an example too.)

or

make relative layout with EditText for input and TextView for hint inside.Change the textview according to your needs.

<RelativeLayout
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <EditText
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Some text"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:id="@+id/editText1"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            />
    <TextView
            android:id="@+id/text_hint"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:text="yourHint"
            android:textSize="14sp"
            android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
            android:textColor="@color/customColor"
            />
</RelativeLayout>

Answer 2

what you are expecting is not possible,since we have to how what user is writing on editext. Now a days https://github.com/hardik-trivedi/FloatingLabel this type of hints are more popular,you can try above link.