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Android

Posted by dlpuxdzztg
dlpuxdzztg
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What happened to EditText?

I took a 2-week hiatus from Android Studio and came back to see EditText nowhere to be found. What happened to it? Was there an update I was unaware of?

1 Answer

Jason Wiram
Jason Wiram
42,762 Points
Jason Wiram
Jason Wiram
42,762 Points

If you look in the Android Studio palette you will no longer see something named EditText. It is still there though. In the palette, select Text. You will see Plain Text, Password, etc. Add one of these to your layout by dragging and dropping it. If you then look at the code (the XML) you will see that they are EditTexts. You can see this in the component tree as well. You will notice that they each have an "android:inputType" that dictates what kind of EditText it is. Example:

android:inputType="textPassword"