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Edittext In Android

In this article, we will discuss about edittext in android.

What Is Edittext?

Edittext is a UI element used for entering and modifying text.

How To Add Edit Text?

In edit text, you have multiple options like plain text, password, email, phone etc. For this tutorial, we are using plain text

Picture showing adding the plain text control in android

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Get And Set The Value Of Edit Text

Here is the code to get and set text

EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText);

//  Setting the value
editText.setText("Test");

// Get the value
Log.v("Edit Text Value", editText.getText().toString());

Here is the output

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Picture showing the value displayed in the edit text in android

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Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Wednesday, November 13, 2019

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