How to remove the underline from the EditText field in Android?

Question

Whenever a word is typed in the EditText box, I always see an underline under the word being typed. But when I press a space after that word I no longer see the underline.

Answer 1

There is a function that removes any composing state. I think if you call it after every time a user types, you will not see the underline. I use it after the user finishes typing, to get the drawing cache of the entire textView (which I need without underline). It's

someTextView.clearComposingText();

Answer 2

Use this from your class, if EditText view is dynamic (created from class file):

EditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);

OR include android:inputType="textNoSuggestions" with your EditText in XML.

Answer 3

android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"

Answer 4

Read this if you want to keep emojis and textNoSuggestions doesn't work for you.

textNoSuggestions does not work in every keyboard. inputType="textVisiblePassword" works but it removes emoji's from most keyboards.

I found that setting inputType="textUri" works and keeps the ability to add emojis.

Answer 5

You can set the EditText to have a custom transparent drawable or just use android:background="@android:color/transparent".

Answer 6

The best solution for this is to add on your EditText:

 android:inputType="textMultiLine|textVisiblePassword"