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

If the EditText has a Background drawable with a border, the cursor is displaying in the border and appears to be invisible. To rectify the problem set padding in the EditText to a small amount e.g. 5dp

Answer 2

Make android:cursorVisible="true"

and

If you have used android:textColor then set the android:textCursorDrawable attribute to @null.

Happy coding ;)

Answer 3

As mentioned above, here's the actual line
android:textCursorDrawable="@null"

 <EditText
               android:textCursorDrawable="@null"
                android:imeOptions="actionNext"
                android:id="@+id/edSMobile"
                 android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"                    
                android:background="@drawable/edit_corner"                    
                android:inputType="phone" />

Answer 4

My issue was that I was using the AppCompat theme, but I had some custom view classes that extended EditText that needed to extend AppCompatEditText in order for the AppCompat style to be applied correctly.

Answer 5

In My case the cursor is visible if user language is English but if he change his language to Arabic then its not visible.

To fix this I have created on custom drawable for cursor.

Cursur shap at drawable/black_cursor.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" >
    <solid android:color="#a8a8a8"/><!-- This is the exact color of android edit text Hint -->
    <size android:width="1dp" />
</shape>

Edit Text:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/user_name"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="20sp"
    android:textCursorDrawable="@drawable/black_cursor"
    />

Answer 6

Add this line for your edit text in the xml file.

android:textCursorDrawable="@null"