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Akmal Rasool
Akmal Rasool

Reputation: 497

EditText cursor is invisible in Android 4.0

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?

Upvotes: 21

Views: 22177

Answers (12)

tej shah
tej shah

Reputation: 3095

If you want to show the cursor then just do

android:textCursorDrawable="@null".

Upvotes: 0

John Warren
John Warren

Reputation: 1

If the EditText has a Background drawable with a border, the cursor is displaying in the border and appears to be invisible. To rectify the problem set padding in the EditText to a small amount e.g. 5dp

Upvotes: 0

Mani
Mani

Reputation: 969

As mentioned above, here's the actual line
android:textCursorDrawable="@null" 

 <EditText
               android:textCursorDrawable="@null"
                android:imeOptions="actionNext"
                android:id="@+id/edSMobile"
                 android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"                    
                android:background="@drawable/edit_corner"                    
                android:inputType="phone" />

Upvotes: 1

apouche
apouche

Reputation: 9983

Just adding my own personal fix to anyone it might help. I had tried everything here but forcing android:background="@null" was causing a very tiny cursor only at the end of my right aligned TextEdit (it was right working fine elsewhere).

Simply adding android:padding="1dp" in my TextEdit solved the issue.

Upvotes: 1

Emran Hamza
Emran Hamza

Reputation: 3869

Add this line for your edit text in the xml file.

android:textCursorDrawable="@null"

Upvotes: 6

Gem
Gem

Reputation: 1606

In My case the cursor is visible if user language is English but if he change his language to Arabic then its not visible.

To fix this I have created on custom drawable for cursor.

Cursur shap at drawable/black_cursor.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" >
    <solid android:color="#a8a8a8"/><!-- This is the exact color of android edit text Hint -->
    <size android:width="1dp" />
</shape>

Edit Text:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/user_name"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="20sp"
    android:textCursorDrawable="@drawable/black_cursor"
    />

Upvotes: 0

Droidee
Droidee

Reputation: 94

Add this line for your edit text in the xml file. 

android:cursorVisible="true"

Upvotes: 1

Darren Hinderer
Darren Hinderer

Reputation: 438

My issue was that I was using the AppCompat theme, but I had some custom view classes that extended EditText that needed to extend AppCompatEditText in order for the AppCompat style to be applied correctly.

Upvotes: 4

Pratik Butani
Pratik Butani

Reputation: 62419

Make android:cursorVisible="true"

and

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

Happy coding ;)

Upvotes: 60

Anhayt Ananun
Anhayt Ananun

Reputation: 896

I happened quite same problem - cursor was showing up only after user types some characters. I tried solutions listed here, but without any success on my device. What actually work for me, is setting blank text to my edittext:

EditText editText = findViewById(R.id.edit_text);
editText.setText("");

This "fakes" the user input, and cursor appears.

Upvotes: 4

Ben Messenegr
Ben Messenegr

Reputation: 156

I had a similar problem but it was because the cursor is actually white and I had a white background. I needed to be able to change the cursor to black in code somehow and used this approach.

I created a layout resource called textbox.axml which contained this

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <EditText xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="This is a template"
    android:background="#ffffff"
    android:textColor="#000000"
    android:cursorVisible="true"
    android:textCursorDrawable="@null" />

I then applied this layout in code (C# because I am using Xamarin) thus

    EditText txtCompletionDate = (EditText)LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.textbox, null);

but it is similar in Java.

Upvotes: 9

user2312638
user2312638

Reputation: 443

I found what was causing it to happen to me.

You need to inherit it from the application's theme. I'm not sure what the line item needs to be exactly, but android:Theme has it so inheriting that will do that trick.

Using the default AppBaseTheme will work (it has android:Theme.Light as it's parent).

To use AppBaseTheme put android:theme="@style/AppBaseTheme" into your application tag in the manifest. You can also use a custom style and multiple levels of inheritance so long as one of them has parent="android:Theme" in the style tag.Like I said it may be possible to have it without that, just using certain line item(s) but I don't know what those would be.

If you don't need a custom theme you can just use

android:theme="@android:style/Theme"

Upvotes: 0

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