TextInputLayout has no effect for giving hint programmatically in EditText

Question

I have an EditText and it\'s parent is TextInputLayout. I am trying to give hint programmatically for EditText, (not in layout) in this case Text input hint animation is not

Answer 1

You have to set hint to TextInputLayout Here is the code.

TextInputLayout textInputLayout = (TextInputLayout)findViewById(R.id.text_input_layout);
textInputLayout.setHint("Hello");

Updated

In Kotlin:

val textInputLayout = findViewById(R.id.text_input_layout)
textInputLayout.hint = "Hello"