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Moulesh
Moulesh

Reputation: 2810

Android bug with Edittext MaxLines

MaxLines attribute in Edit text is not working:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
        android:paddingLeft="10dp"
        android:paddingRight="10dp"
        android:textColorHint="@color/colorAccent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/register_userName"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:textColorHint="@color/colorAccent"
        android:textColor="@color/colorAccent"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="Name" />
    </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

I'm using following in my gradle:

compileSdkVersion 25
buildToolsVersion '25.0.2'

Though I Have specified android:maxLines="1" for my edit text, the edit text shifting to new line I'm testing on Android 5.1, this worked fine on my previous apps but I recently updated my build tools and I'm not sure why android:maxLines="1" is not working as expected.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8472

Answers (4)

andrei
andrei

Reputation: 2940

Even though it seems to be working with android:inputType="text" the docs say it must be used with textMultiLine

Makes the TextView be at most this many lines tall. When used on an editable text, the inputType attribute's value must be combined with the textMultiLine flag for the maxLines attribute to apply.

Upvotes: 1

beeb
beeb

Reputation: 1615

For now you should use inputType="text" with maxLines="1" for a single line.

Discussion on SO why it's deprecated: Is the xml attribute singleLine deprecated or not in Android?

Google issue: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=221762

Upvotes: 12

W4R10CK
W4R10CK

Reputation: 5550

Add proper EditText line values:

android:lines="1"
android:minLines="1"
android:maxLines="1"

Using all 3 implies to single line.

Upvotes: 1

Tomasz Czura
Tomasz Czura

Reputation: 2434

android:singleLine="true" is deprecated. Try to add

android:inputType="text"

Upvotes: 1

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