Android APIs
public class

AppCompatEditText

extends EditText
implements TintableBackgroundView
java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.view.View
     ↳ android.widget.TextView
       ↳ android.widget.EditText
         ↳ android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText

Class Overview

A EditText which supports compatible features on older version of the platform, including:

This will automatically be used when you use EditText in your layouts. You should only need to manually use this class when writing custom views.

Summary

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Inherited XML Attributes
From class android.widget.TextView
From class android.view.View
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Inherited Constants
From class android.view.View
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Inherited Fields
From class android.view.View
Public Constructors
AppCompatEditText(Context context)
AppCompatEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
AppCompatEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr)
Public Methods
void setBackgroundDrawable(Drawable background)
This method is deprecated. use setBackground(Drawable) instead
void setBackgroundResource(int resId)
Set the background to a given resource.
void setTextAppearance(Context context, int resId)
This method is deprecated. Use setTextAppearance(int) instead.
Protected Methods
void drawableStateChanged()
This function is called whenever the state of the view changes in such a way that it impacts the state of drawables being shown.
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Inherited Methods
From class android.widget.EditText
From class android.widget.TextView
From class android.view.View
From class java.lang.Object
From interface android.view.ViewTreeObserver.OnPreDrawListener
From interface android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.Callback
From interface android.view.KeyEvent.Callback
From interface android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityEventSource
From interface android.support.v4.view.TintableBackgroundView

Public Constructors

public AppCompatEditText (Context context)

public AppCompatEditText (Context context, AttributeSet attrs)

public AppCompatEditText (Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr)

Public Methods

public void setBackgroundDrawable (Drawable background)

This method is deprecated.
use setBackground(Drawable) instead

public void setBackgroundResource (int resId)

Set the background to a given resource. The resource should refer to a Drawable object or 0 to remove the background.

Parameters
resId The identifier of the resource.

public void setTextAppearance (Context context, int resId)

This method is deprecated.
Use setTextAppearance(int) instead.

Sets the text color, size, style, hint color, and highlight color from the specified TextAppearance resource.

Protected Methods

protected void drawableStateChanged ()

This function is called whenever the state of the view changes in such a way that it impacts the state of drawables being shown.

If the View has a StateListAnimator, it will also be called to run necessary state change animations.

Be sure to call through to the superclass when overriding this function.