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androidlayoutinputandroid-edittext
alaboudi
alaboudi

Reputation: 3413

Changing layout through user input

Im new to app development.

I want to add a button on the screen that when clicked will give the user a TextEdit in which he can enter some data. Can anyone give a brief description to how this is done?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 64

Answers (1)

codeMagic
codeMagic

Reputation: 44571

I'm not going to write all the code from scratch but I can give you a few pointers that should help. You can create a new EditText with something like

public void onClick(View v)
{
     EditText et = new EditText(v.getContext());
     // add layout params, text, etc...

}

Then you need to add it to a ViewGroup such as a LinearLayout that is in the currently inflated Layout with viewGroupName.addView(et);

However, a simpler way, if this works for you, is to have the EditText already defined in your xml and set the visibility to either invisible or gone then set the visibility in your onClick() to visible.

Hopefully this is enough to get you started. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Upvotes: 1

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