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Val Okafor
Val Okafor

Reputation: 3457

Xamarin Android EditText setError Not Displaying Text

For some reason I am not able to display error message text in my EditText. I am using Xamarin.Android 4.16.0. I have a simple use case

private EditText _businessNameEdit;
_businessNameEdit = _rootView.FindViewById<EditText> (Resource.Id.editTextBusinessName);

    //wire up save button handler
            if (_saveButton != null) {
                _saveButton.Click += (sender, e) => {
                    validateFormInput();


void validateFormInput ()
        {
            Drawable errorIcon = Resources.GetDrawable(Resource.Drawable.statuserror); 

            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty (_businessNameEdit.Text)) {
                _businessNameEdit.Error = "Cannot be Empty";
                _businessNameEdit.RequestFocus ();
                //_businessNameEdit.SetCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(0, 0, Resource.Drawable.statuserror, 0);
            }
        }               };

If I do editText.Error = "Some message", the default Android error Icon will show with no message, like so and if I use SetCompoundDrawablesWithIntrisicBounds() it show my custom image with with not message.

Xamarin Android Edittext Error

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3656

Answers (2)

Val Okafor
Val Okafor

Reputation: 3457

My goodness, spent the whole day to realise that it was a theme issue. Added 

android:theme = "@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light"

to the Activity and that was it.

Upvotes: 2

ρяσѕρєя K
ρяσѕρєя K

Reputation: 132992

Probably text color is white so try to set different color for text in Error message:

_businessNameEdit.Error =
                  Html.fromHtml("<font color='black'>Cannot be Empty</font>");

Upvotes: 1

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