Xamarin EditText

EditText is very commonly used control for Android  platform. 
EditText means you can edit the text of the control.For example you are entering username and password to the system. EditText  accept username and password. You have to type your username and password to the EditText control. Below is the design code of EditText 

<EditText

        android:id="@+id/txt_user_name"

        android:layout_width="300dp"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:hint="Please enter username"

        android:imeActionId="6"

        android:maxLines="1"

        android:singleLine="true"

        android:textColor="#000000"

        android:textSize="30sp"

        android:background="#FFFFFF"

         android:gravity="center" />

 


EditText control have some common property like 

• id
• layout_width
• layout_height
• hints
• gravity
• textcolor
• singleLine
• backgound

"id" : Property is uniquely identified of the control. 

"text" : Text property accept text to be display in the control.

You can directly write the string or you can retrieve the string from string.xml file.Here is the example

directly write

<EditText

        android:id="@+id/txt_user_name"

        android:layout_width="300dp"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:hint="Please enter username"

        android:imeActionId="6"

        android:maxLines="1"

        android:singleLine="true"

        android:textColor="#000000"

        android:textSize="30sp"

        android:background="#FFFFFF"

         android:gravity="center" 

     android:text="Hello World" />

 

text from string.Xml

<EditText

        android:id="@+id/txt_user_name"

        android:layout_width="300dp"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:hint="Please enter username"

        android:imeActionId="6"

        android:maxLines="1"

        android:singleLine="true"

        android:textColor="#000000"

        android:textSize="30sp"

        android:background="#FFFFFF"

         android:gravity="center" 

     android:text="@string/UserName" />

As like other control Gravity property set the position of EditText. It can be placed center, button, top. Below is the example of to know how it can be placed at the top of its parent layout.

code
output

EditText has some variety of nature of accepting the text. It can accept a single line text. Here is the example

<EditText

        android:id="@+id/txt_user_name"

        android:layout_width="300dp"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:hint="Please enter username"

        android:imeActionId="6"

        android:maxLines="1"

        android:singleLine="true"

        android:textColor="#000000"

        android:textSize="30sp"

        android:background="#FFFFFF"

         android:gravity="center" 

     android:text="@string/UserName" />

EditText can accept multiple line of text, here is the example.

<EditText

       android:id="@+id/txt_user_name"

       android:layout_width="300dp"

       android:layout_height="wrap_content"

       android:lines="8"

       android:minLines="6"

       android:imeActionId="6"

       android:maxLines="5"

       android:singleLine="false"

       android:textColor="#000000"

       android:textSize="20sp"

       android:background="#FFFFFF"

      android:gravity="center" />

EditText connection password. Input type password property accept password.Here is the example.

 

<EditText

        android:id="@+id/txt_user_name"

        android:layout_width="300dp"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:lines="1"

        android:minLines="1"

        android:imeActionId="6"

        android:maxLines="1"

        android:inputType="textPassword"

        android:singleLine="true"

        android:textColor="#000000"

        android:textSize="20sp"

       android:background="#FFFFFF"

       android:gravity="center" />

 

 

You can design your  EditText in variety of format. You can the font size, colour of font background ect. Here is the example.Here text size is 30sp and background color is #CA5100 and fore color is #CA5100.

 

<EditText

        android:id="@+id/txt_user_name"

        android:layout_width="300dp"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:minLines="1"

        android:imeActionId="1"

        android:maxLines="5"

        android:singleLine="false"

        android:textColor="#1C4475"

        android:textSize="30sp"

        android:background="#CA5100"

        android:gravity="center" />

EditText event handling is a very easy process. Below section show that how and even handle can be done. 

 

 

EditText btn2 = FindViewById(Resource.Id.txt_user_name);

btn2.Click += (object sender, EventArgs eventArgs) => 

{

     /* your statement */

};