Question

I’ve got an EditText…

 <EditText android:id="@+id/box" android:autoText="true"
 android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="45dip"
 android:singleLine="true" android:hint="Enter" />

Is it possible to make the text only appear up on till say… 50dip from the end of the EditText?

So when typing a query it’d look like

 ____________________
 |y query is cool   |
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while typing my query is cool

Answer 1

You can use paddingRight in this case (assuming I understood you correctly). Here is an example:

 <EditText android:id="@+id/box"
        android:autoText="true"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"          
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingRight="50dp"                                     
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:hint="Enter" 
        android:text="1234567890ABCDEF-1234567890ABCDEF"/>

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