Question

I have set a hint for an EditText, currently the hint visibility is gone. When a user starts typing, I want to remove the hint text, when the cursor is visible in the EditText, not at the time when a user starts to type. How can I do that?

<EditText 
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:background="@drawable/edittextbg"
android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
android:layout_marginTop="7dp"
android:gravity="left"
android:id="@+id/Photo_Comments" 
android:layout_width="150dip" 
android:maxLines="1"
android:hint="Write Caption"
android:maxLength="50"
android:singleLine="true"
android:maxWidth="100dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

Answer 1

I don’t know whether a direct way of doing this is available or not, but you surely there is a workaround via code: listen for onFocus event of EditText, and as soon it gains focus, set the hint to be nothing with something like editText.setHint(""):

This may not be exactly what you have to do, but it may be something like this-

myEditText.setOnFocusListener(new OnFocusListener(){
  public void onFocus(){
    myEditText.setHint("");
  }
});