Android EditText view Floating Hint in Material Design

Question

Does API 21 provide a method to use the following feature:

http://www.google.com/design/spec/components/text-fields.html#text-fields-floating-labels

I\'m try

Answer 1

Import the Support Libraries, In your project's build.gradle file, add the following lines in the project's dependencies:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])

    compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0'
}

Use following TextInputLayout in your UI Layout:

Than, call setHint on TextInputLayout just after setContentView call because, to animate the floating label, you just need to set a hint, using the setHint method.

final TextInputLayout usernameWrapper = (TextInputLayout) findViewById(R.id.usernameWrapper);
usernameWrapper.setHint("Username");