how to make hint disappear when edittext is touched?

Question

In my application in android are many EditText fields. And I ran into a problem with hint. It is not disappearing when EditText is focused, but it disappears when I start to write something. How can this problem be fixed? Because I need the hint to disappear when the EditText field is touched.

It is for example:

<EditText     android:layout_width="260dp"     android:layout_height="30dp"     android:ems="10"     android:inputType="text"     android:id="@+id/driv_lic_num_reg"     android:hint="@string/driver_license_numb"     android:textColor="@color/black"     android:textColorHint="@color/grey_hint"     android:background="@drawable/input_field_background"     android:layout_alignParentTop="true"     android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"     android:layout_margin="2dp"     android:textCursorDrawable="@color/black"     android:textSize="15dp"     android:paddingLeft="10dp"     android:nextFocusDown="@+id/pass_reg"     android:imeOptions="actionNext"     android:maxLines="1"     android:maxLength="50"     android:focusableInTouchMode="true"/> 

Answer 1

You can also custom your XML code by using Selector. Here is an example code.

Create a selector. In file selector.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">     <item android:state_focused="true" android:color="@android:color/transparent" />     <item android:color="@color/gray" /> </selector> 

In your view

android:textColorHint="@drawable/selector"