EditText cursor is invisible in Android 4.0

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Akmal Rasool picture Akmal Rasool · Feb 26, 2013 · Viewed 20.8k times · Source

I have an EditText input in Android 4.0 and the Cursor is not showing inside it.

What can make the cursor not appear in the input field?

Answer

Pratik Butani picture Pratik Butani · Sep 25, 2013

Make android:cursorVisible="true"

and

If you have used android:textColor then set the android:textCursorDrawable attribute to @null.

Happy coding ;)

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