How to put default value in EditText in Android Studio

Question

I am trying to put a value in EditText but I can not.

The code I edit:

<EditText android:textColor="@color/white" android:id="@id/input_username" 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_marginTop="20.0dip" android:hint="@string/input_username_hint" 
    android:ems="10" android:singleLine="true" android:maxLength="140" 
    android:layout_below="@id/input_room_name" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />

When I put android:text="user" the genarated apk is not opening.

Please explain what "not opening" means. If you mean that you are crashing, use LogCat to examine the Java stack trace associated with your crash: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23353173/unfortunately-myapp-has-stopped-how-can-i-solve-this — CommonsWare, Aug 16 '15 at 14:15

Mauker · Answer 1 · 2020-04-27T00:04:20.657

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Do this:

editText.setText("Your default text");

But if you want to show that gray text that disappears when the user starts to type, you're looking for android:hint.

On xml:

android:hint="Your default text"

On java:

editText.setHint("Your default text");

On kotlin:

editText.hint = "Your default text"

edited Apr 27 '20 at 00:04

answered Aug 16 '15 at 14:18

Mauker

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 16 '15 at 14:25

In your .xml file,

specify

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="user" />

or

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="user" />

If you want to do it in program

do this

EditText et = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.your_edittext_id);
et.setText("user");

or

et.setHint("user");

How to put default value in EditText in Android Studio

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