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androidprogrammer2012
androidprogrammer2012

Reputation: 33

completely transparent EditText

i want to transparent an edittext in both Background and textColor sides. so i used this lines in my java code:

tempEditText.setTextColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
tempEditText.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

but unfortunately this tempEditText object shows when i start typing any character on it. i want it to be completely invisible when i typing somthing to it. so i want it to be focused, get some texts, and i want the ability of retrieving strings that typed on it, but all in invisible state of edittext. i test visibility=invisible but in this situation the edittext cant give texts...

<EditText
        android:id="@+id/tempEditText"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="#00000000"
        android:textColor="#00000000"
        android:singleLine="true" />

any tips? thank you...

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7557

Answers (6)

Apurba A
Apurba A

Reputation: 168

        <EditText
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:background="@null"
            android:id="@+id/search_input"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/filter"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/search_button"
            />

use this line,then it will obviously work

 android:background="@null"

Upvotes: 0

Kumar Vivek Mitra
Kumar Vivek Mitra

Reputation: 33544

Make the EditText background attribute as #bb000000 for making it transparent.

If you are on Eclipse use the GUI to do it, or do this in your XML file android:background="#bb000000".

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Upvotes: 0

VISH
VISH

Reputation: 31

Try this,

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editText"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:alpha="0">

or programmatically you can set alpha to your EditText

editText.setAlpha(0.0f);

Note: The issue is user will not able to see cursor!

Upvotes: 1

Guillaume Ilitch Tcha&#239;kovsky
Guillaume Ilitch Tcha&#239;kovsky

Reputation: 294

I did this in my XML File :

android:textCursorDrawable="@null"
android:textColor="@android:color/transparent"
android:background="@null"

Upvotes: 0

Chirag
Chirag

Reputation: 56935

Change EditText background android:background="#00000000" or android:background="@null" in your xml file.

For Text Color android:textColor="#00000000" in xml file.

Upvotes: 1

Ljdawson
Ljdawson

Reputation: 12239

Try:

android:background="@android:color/transparent"

or

android:background="@null"

Edit: show the virtual keyboard:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(
      Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(exampleView.getWindowToken(), 0);

Upvotes: 5

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