How to add hint into EditText with inputType="numberDecimal"?

Question

I have an EditText like below:

<EditText
android:id="@+id/et_sum"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.5"
android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:inputType="numberDecimal"
android:hint="Enter sum" />

But the hint is not displayed. Is it possible to display the EditText hint with inputType="numberDecimal" or not?

It seems unnecessary to me to use `android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"`. Is there any change if you remove that? — skynet, Nov 16 '11 at 18:52

SKT · Answer 1 · 2012-06-25T09:57:45.223

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you can use

android:ellipsize="start"

to make the hint displayed with an inputtype and gravity

edited Jun 25 '12 at 09:57

answered May 25 '12 at 06:34

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 16 '11 at 18:53

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It appears to be a problem with using android:gravity="center_horizontal". Try removing that line as it made the hint appear for me.

answered Nov 16 '11 at 18:53

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Well, it was the issue, but when you want to center the text and focus the cursor in the center, then you got a problem. here is the solution if that is the case. android:ellipsize="start" android:singleLine="true" – Nizzy Apr 25 '14 at 03:10

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 16 '11 at 19:03

Here is one of my EditText tags to compare with:

<EditText
         android:id="@+id/txtNumbText"
         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:textSize="18sp"
         android:inputType="numberDecimal"
         android:singleLine="true"
         android:hint="Number Hint Text">
</EditText>

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 30 '11 at 04:42

Hi we can not use Gravity attribute and inputtype="number" attribute at a time so better to neglect gravity attribute.

if u want set hint in middle of edit text use like this : android:hint=" hint "

give space in hint text

<EditText android:id="@+id/xEt" android:layout_width="170dip"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginRight="20dip"
            android:inputType="number"
            android:hint="   numbers only "
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true" />

How to add hint into EditText with inputType="numberDecimal"?

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