EditText display hint string
We can set edittext hint by using edittext ‘android:hint’ property.
Edittext hint is used to display a hint about the edittext.
Example: – When we are creating a login window we will create a textview & editext.
Textview is for input (“Enter the username”).
Editext is for output (“androidpeople”).
By using edittext hint we need not create a textview for input. We can provide input text in edittext hint.
<EditText
android:id="@+id/autoCompleteTextView1"
android:layout_height="31dip"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:background="@drawable/search_edit_bg"
android:hint="search keyword"
android:singleLine="true"
android:lines="1"
android:maxLines="1">
</EditText>
in code
EditText.setHint("search keyword");