EditText setError() with icon but without Popup message

Question

I want to to have some validation for my EditText wherein I want to show \"\" icon (that comes when you put editText.setError(\"blah blah\")) but don\'t want th

Answer 1

To get only the error-icon without an error-message-popup only when setError("") is called (i.e. set an empty String as error-message) I use a custom EditText-class where I override setError(CharSequence, Drawable) like this:

@Override
public void setError(CharSequence error, Drawable icon) {
    if (error == null) {
        super.setError(null, icon);
        setCompoundDrawables(null, null, null, null);
    }
    else if (error.toString().equals("")) setCompoundDrawables(null, null, icon, null);
    else super.setError(error, icon);
}

Everything else stays the same:

Use setError(null) to get neither the icon nor the message-popup.

Use setError(errorMessage), where errorMessage is a String with length 1 at least, to get the icon and message-popup.