Android add placeholder text to EditText

Question

How can I add a placeholder text to EditText in the class that isn\'t in the XML?

I have the following EditText in my code which will be sh

Answer 1

Ah, ok. What you're looking for is setHint(int). Simply pass in a resource id of a string from your xml and you're good to go.

EDIT

And in XML, it's simply android:hint="someText"