I know that I could change the No. of lines for EditeText's Text, yet could I change that of EditText's hint as well?
I could not find a solution online.
Thanks for the help.
My Code:
@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
inflater.inflate(R.menu.property_search, menu);
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
final MenuItem searchViewMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
mSearchView = (SearchView) searchViewMenuItem.getActionView();
int searchSrcTextId = getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
EditText searchEditText = (EditText) mSearchView.findViewById(searchSrcTextId);
searchEditText.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT);
searchEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_EMAIL_ADDRESS);
searchEditText.setHint(getString(R.string.search_hint));
}
strings.xml
<string name="search_hint">keyword, location, \nmax price (e.g. 1K, 1M)</string>
What I want is:
keyword, location,
max price (e.g. 1K, 1M)
Nothing worked for me but:
<EditText
android:id="@+id/text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textMultiLine|textLongMessage"
android:hint="\n"/>
To be honest I don´t understand why.. but including "\n" as hint in the xml did the trick!
Now you can call setHint from Java code:
searchEditText.setHint(getString(R.string.search_hint));
and remove the \n from strings.xml if you want to allow the text split automatically according to the room
<string name="search_hint">keyword, location, max price (e.g. 1K, 1M)</string>