No cursor in editText under Honeycomb

Question

I have an application that uses an internal ime (meaning the ime is just code within the application and not a true ime). I use this ime panel to enter/edit an editText. Everything works fine up to Froyo (I have not tested under Gingerbread). On Honeycomb, however, I can input text and edit it but no cursor or text highlight is displayed! Does anyone know how to work around this? I'd rather not fork my code to a special Honeycomb version just to correct this one problem.

I have explicitly set the xml cursorVisible element to true and then set it to true with setCursorVisible in the code but that doesn't help.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Add these attributes to your EditText, to make the blinking cursor black:

android:textColor="#000000"
android:textCursorDrawable="@null"

It's needed if you're using the Holo theme. From: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9165217/1267112