EditText cursor not visible in Android 3.0

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I am working on Android 3.0. I am using an EditText that has a transparent background . The EditText is placed on a layout having a white background. As a result the EditText cursor is not visible (I assume the cursor is white by default) . After going through your forum I found out a solution that says I have to create my own cursor drawable using styles.xml.

But to my dismay, the cursorDrawable parameter is available only in Android 3.1. But I have to work on 3.0 and above.

Is there any solution?

if you can't change the cursor color, then change the white background of the layout. — Sarwar Erfan, Dec 12 '11 at 11:45
i have changed the background to a darker color.Now the cursor is visible. — kirtipriya, Jan 09 '12 at 14:05

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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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. And it will work on older Android versions if you set the minSDK value in the AndroidManifest.xml

From: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9165217/1267112

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Mar 15 '12 at 12:40

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textCursorDrawable is only available in 3.1, not 3.0 as the OP needs – saulpower Sep 07 '12 at 15:46

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 07 '12 at 12:53

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It's working fine But , Cursor not blinking in my 3.1 device

answered Aug 07 '12 at 12:53

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 18 '15 at 12:35

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Setting minimum width (5dp) to edit text while using wrap_text as layout_width will show the cursor when the edittext's background is transparent.

answered Nov 18 '15 at 12:35

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EditText cursor not visible in Android 3.0

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