Question

I am trying to prefill an EditText widget with some instr. but erase the moment the user clicks in the box so they start leftmost point? I tried registering onClickListener(), onKeyListener but I was not able to capture this? Thanks What can I register to detect this first click within the text editing area?

Answer 1

This can be done without listening for an event. In your EditText element in your layout.xml file, you can set an attribute android:hint.

<EditText 
  android:hint="Write Caption" <!-- This line -->
  android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>