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Hassan Chaudhry
Hassan Chaudhry

Reputation: 11

How do I remove text from EditText

I have created a function which allows the user to enter text in EditText and then when the user clicks the send button it displays it on the screen in textView, but I want to remove the text from edittext once the user clicks on the send button and I only want it to display on the textview and nowhere else, how can I accomplish this?

private void addMessage() {
    final EditText myMessageField = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.messageField);
    final TextView displayText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.printMessage);
    Button btnSendMessage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnSend);

    btnSendMessage.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            displayText.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP,22);
            displayText.setText(myMessageField.getText().toString());

        }
    });

}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2966

Answers (2)

Ahmed Ekri
Ahmed Ekri

Reputation: 4651

in the onClick add this.

myMessageField.setText("");

it'll make the edittext text to blank

so it'll be like this:

   btnSendMessage.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            displayText.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP,22);
            displayText.setText(myMessageField.getText().toString());
//erasing text from edittext
myMessageField.setText("");

        }
    });

}

Upvotes: 2

Sage
Sage

Reputation: 15438

What about editText.setText(""); ?

Upvotes: 1

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