EditText in Android doesn't show text when typing while using the on-screen keyboard

Question

I have an activity consisting of 3 EditText fields (amongst other things like TextViews and a few buttons). I also have an AutoCompleteTextView with a list of String\'s usin

Answer 1

In fact your text is being typped, but that's a little bug that makes your text color be the same as your background, so you don't see it. This can be easily fixed by doing 2 things:

1) Simply change the textColor of your EditText, either defining it in the layout:

android:textColor="..."

or dynamically:

EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.your_edittext);
et.setTextColor(Color.RED);

2) Change the extended theme in your manifest:

3) Create the new theme at res/values/themes.xml which uses fixed styles:

4) Now these styles, located at res/values/styles.xml should fix the color:

I know it's a mess, but try it and if it works, try finding a combination of those attributes that fit to your layout.