EditText hint doesn't show

android android-widget android-edittext hint
venuko picture venuko · Aug 31, 2010 · Viewed 31.7k times · Source

My EditText configured as follows won't show the hint: 

<EditText
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="right"
    android:hint="The hint..."
    android:scrollHorizontally="true"
    android:singleLine="true" />

It works if I set android:gravity="left" or if I remove android:scrollHorizontally and android:singleLine attributes, which is not desirable. Any suggestions?

Answer

Someone Somewhere picture Someone Somewhere · Jan 7, 2012

using android:ellipsize="end" fixed it for me Weird bug !! (but Android has a lot of these weirdo bug)

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