Android - default value in editText

Question

In my app I have an edit user details page and I want to display the current name, email address etc in the corresponding editText fields and then the user can just erase that and enter a new one if they want.

Is there a way to do this? Thanks for any help

Answer 1

You can use text property in your xml file for particular Edittext fields. For example :

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/ET_User"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="yourusername"/>

like this all Edittext fields contains text whatever u want,if user wants to change particular Edittext field he remove older text and enter his new text.

In Another way just you get the particular Edittext field id in activity class and set text to that one.

Another way = programmatically

Example:

EditText username=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.ET_User);

username.setText("jack");