Hello everyone,

This is my 1st post here. I'm really pleased to meet you all.

Does anyone here know how to create a text input field (in XML) that has the field name displayed IN the field element.

For example:

Let's say you create a field called "Name" and next to it, you put an INPUT FIELD where someone writes their name.

OK.. but what I want is where the word "Name" appears IN the [INPUT FIELD]

How do you do that?

a typical example that I'd like to imitate is that in the phone book. If you go to your contacts, and do "ADD NEW CONTACT", the field for first and Last name has the words "First and Last" written the field where you enter the First and Last name of the user.

As soon as you start typing the First name, the field title disappears.

Im sorry for rambling on, but i'd love help with this, and I'm not entirely sure if I was clear or not.

Many thanks for any help you can provide.

Use the android:hint property of EditText, something like

Thanks a lot! I'll try that.

Hi Mangalov,

THanks. It worked
YAY

WHich books would you recommend?

Thanks

Hi,

Well I still consider myself a novice at Android and I haven't really read any books so I wouldn't know. One thing I can recommend for sure is to make sure you know where to find the source code for the standard Android apps and the Android framework. I found the hint-property I wrote about by looking at the source for the Contact-app. But that's just me, there's probably a ton of good books out there...