how to take input from user in android

Question

i have a EditText in android in which i want the user to enter the text and checks for the condition "BYE"

Code sample:

EditText text = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.EditText01);
String abc= text .getText().toString(); 

while( !(abc).equals("bye")){

   abc = text.getText().toString();//user should enter the text from keyboard and the while loop should go and chech the condition.but not able to enter the text

   //do some operation with abc

 }

How can i make user to enter the text??The UI should wait for the text to be entered(something like we have InputStreamReader in java applications).

Answer 1

Very Simple:-

EditText text = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.EditText01); 
String str = text.getText().toString(); 

now in str u will get string which is entered in EditText