Clear text in EditText when entered

android android-edittext
locoboy picture locoboy · Mar 15, 2011 · Viewed 266.6k times · Source

I'm trying to set and onclicklistener so that when I click within the edittext element it will clear its current contents. Is there something wrong here? When I compile this code I get a force quit and ActivityManager: Can't dispatch DDM chunk 4d505251: no handler defined error.

public class Project extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);


        editText.setOnClickListener(this);

        setContentView(R.layout.main);

    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        editText.setText("");
    }
}

Answer

Serhii Nadolynskyi picture Serhii Nadolynskyi · Jan 25, 2013

Also you can use code below

editText.getText().clear();

Related questions

How do you close/hide the Android soft keyboard using Java?

I have an EditText and a Button in my layout. After writing in the edit field and clicking on the Button, I want to hide the virtual keyboard when touching outside the keyboard. I assume that this is a simple …

Read More
How to stop EditText from gaining focus at Activity startup in Android

I have an Activity in Android, with two elements: EditText ListView When my Activity starts, the EditText immediately has input focus (flashing cursor). I don't want any control to have input focus at startup. I tried: EditText.setSelected(false); EditText.…

Read More
Get Value of a Edit Text field

I am learning how to create UI elements. I have created a few EditText input fields. On the click of a Button I want to capture the content typed into that input field. <EditText android:id="@+id/name" android:…

Read More