EditText cursor is invisible in Android 4.0

Question

I have an EditText input in Android 4.0 and the Cursor is not showing inside it.

What can make the cursor not appear in the input field?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem but it was because the cursor is actually white and I had a white background. I needed to be able to change the cursor to black in code somehow and used this approach.

I created a layout resource called textbox.axml which contained this

I then applied this layout in code (C# because I am using Xamarin) thus

    EditText txtCompletionDate = (EditText)LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.textbox, null);

but it is similar in Java.