How to check password from EditView?

Question

I am using EditText with android:password="true" so that the user enters a password. Then I want to compare the password with a hard-coded password when the user clicks a button.

But I can not compare the password with the string "mypassword". Here is the code I use to verify the password:

 EditText pw = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.pwdTxt); if(pw.getText().equals("mypassword")) { Intent i = new Intent(LoginActivity.this, LinkpageActivity.class); startActivity(i); } else { // Wrong password } 

Comparing pw.getText().equals("mypassword") returns false even if I find the correct password. How to check password using EditText ?

Answer 1

Perhaps you could try

 pw.getText().toString().equals("mypassword")