I recently used TextInputEditText
and I got lint error that singleLine
attribute is Deprecated
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
android:id="@+id/my_edit_text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="@string/string_hint_dob"
android:lines="5"/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
Getting strike-through as below:
Is there any alternative way for this or any reason to make it deprecated?
The android:singleLine
attribute has been deprecated since API Level 3. You can achieve the same behaviour by using android:maxLines
, which allows you to specify an arbitrary number of lines. This is superior to android:singleLine
, which restricts you to only allowing one line.
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minLines="2"
android:maxLines="2" /> <!-- can specify arbitrary number of max lines -->
android:singleLine
is deprecated since API 3, you have to use android:maxLines
instead (in your case android:maxLines="1"
).
The reason of the deprecation is for its bad performance. Anyway the singleLine
attribute will not be removed because it's still the only way to make some effects that android:maxLines
can't make:
e.g.
This will produce a scrolling horizontal text on one line if the text is selected.
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:scrollHorizontally="true" />
Instead, this won't work:
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:scrollHorizontally="true" />
Always define input type for single line
ex : inputType="text"
You don't need to do anything else.
Following a commment of Juan José Melero Gómez, I would like to add more information:
If you are attempting to set an imeAction
to your EditText
such as actionSearch
, setting android:maxLines="1"
won't be enough. Adding android:inputType="text"
is mandatory if you want to see the search icon.
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
android:maxLines="1"
/>
use android:inputType="text"
and android:maxLines="1"
togather