How to set text in EditText

Question

How can I set the text of an EditText?

Answer 1

If you check the documents for EditText , you will find the setText() method. It accepts String and TextView.BufferType . For example:

 EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edit_text); editText.setText("Google is your friend.", TextView.BufferType.EDITABLE); 

It also inherits the TextView methods setText(CharSequence) and setText(int) , so you can set it the same way as a regular TextView :

 editText.setText("Hello world!"); editText.setText(R.string.hello_world); 

Answer 2

 String string="this is a text"; editText.setText(string) 

I found String to be a useful indirect subclass of CharSequence

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html find setText (CharSequence text)

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/CharSequence.html

Answer 3

 String text = "Example"; EditText edtText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edtText); edtText.setText(text); 

Check EditText to accept only String values, if necessary, convert them to string.

If int, double, long value, do:

 String.value(value); 

Answer 4

Use +, the string concatenation operator:

  ed = (EditText) findViewById (R.id.box); int x = 10; ed.setText(""+x); 

or use

 String.valueOf(int): ed.setText(String.valueOf(x)); 

or use

 Integer.toString(int): ed.setText(Integer.toString(x)); 

Answer 5

You can set android:text="your text" ;

 <EditText android:id="@+id/editTextName" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/intro_name"/> 

Answer 6

 editTextObject.setText(CharSequence) 

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setText(java.lang.CharSequence )

Answer 7

You need:

• Declare EditText in the xml file
• Find EditText in action
• Set the text to EditText

Answer 8

This is a decision in Kotlin

 val editText: EditText = findViewById(R.id.main_et_name) editText.setText("This is a text.") 

Answer 9

Solution in Android Java:

1. Run your EditText, the identifier has come to your XML identifier.

    EditText myText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.my_text_id); 

2. in your OnCreate method, just set the text by a specific name.

    String text = "here put the text that you want" 

3. use the setText method from your editText.

    myText.setText(text); //variable from point 2 

Answer 10

 EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edit_text); editText.setText("Google is your friend.", TextView.BufferType.EDITABLE); 

Not to be too technical, and I'm sure you get it the same way I do, but it is “Editable”.