Android - EditText not showing any text

Question

I seem to have quite a specific problem. I have two tablets, one runs on Android 6.0.1, the other on 5.1.1. I have an activity and a fragment (the fragment is located on an activity). Each has an EditText element with the following layout:

 <EditText
        android:id="@+id/etInputForm_1_1"
        android:layout_width="250dp"
        android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:layout_below="@id/tvDescription_1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:cursorVisible="true"
        android:imeOptions="actionNext"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"
        android:paddingLeft="5dp"
        android:paddingStart="5dp"
        android:textColor="@color/Black"
        android:textSize="15sp"/>

The problem is, if I test it on the device with Android 6.0.1, everything seems to be ok, I can input text wherever I want to, however on the device with 5.1.1, the EditText in the fragment always seems to be empty no matter how many letters I type (the EditText in the activity still works fine).

But the logs still show that the text IS there (however we can't see it). Anyone had similar problem and a solution to this?

try android:textColorHint="#000000". Its a "bug" even if you dont use hints. It may help. Try android:ellipsize="end" aswell (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3608234/edittext-hint-doesnt-show). Anyway, in your case it seems to be another issue. Please post the parent Layout aswell — Emanuel, Apr 27 '17 at 15:14
The background color is another. This problem exists on android 5.1.1, on the higher versions it seems to work fine. — SpKiwi, Apr 27 '17 at 15:21
Switching textColorHelp not helping either and so is ellipsize. The parent layout is just as simple as this: — SpKiwi, Apr 27 '17 at 15:24

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 11 '19 at 15:29

I had a similar issue where the edit text hint wouldn't go away (representing text was in the field) and no text would show up when I was typing but my logs showed text was indeed in the field. I also had an issue where my spinners would not show the selected option

I solved it by enabling hardware acceleration for my application. Since it is enabled by default (I believe) I removed this line from my <application></application> section of my manifest file: android:hardwareAccelerated="false"

I'm baffled at how hardware acceleration could possible effect this — joehinkle11, Mar 13 '20 at 18:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '20 at 19:29

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My issue resolved after removing following line from edit text.

android:textAllCaps="true"

answered Jun 05 '20 at 19:29

Mazhar Ali

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score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '18 at 06:49

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The problem was resolved by using android.app.Fragment instead of android.support.v4.app.Fragment. Seems that the support fragment class is buggy when using on tablets with Android 5.1.1.

answered Sep 04 '18 at 06:49

SpKiwi

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Android - EditText not showing any text

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