Does EditText.getText() ever returns null?

Question

All over the net I see examples like edittext.getText().toString(). I do not see any null check. In docs I do not see any statement that would say that this wil

Answer 1

With Android P SDK it is annotated as nullable in the AppCompatEditText class so it can return null.

And from the docs:

Return the text that the view is displaying. If an editable text has not been set yet, this will return null.

@Override
@Nullable
public Editable getText() {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 28) {
        return super.getText();
    }
    // A bug pre-P makes getText() crash if called before the first setText due to a cast, so
    // retrieve the editable text.
    return super.getEditableText();
}