Android setError(“error”) not working in Textview

Question

We can set error in Edittext successfully but failed to set in textview. is there any problem?? i tried

((TextView) findViewById(R.id.df)).requestFocus();
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Answer 1

Actually , you can use the setError for the textView and show its popup .

You just need to use the same style as of the EditText .

Simply add the next attribute for the textView in the xml :

style="@android:style/Widget.EditText"