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Android: How to set password property in an edit text?

Asked 2011-05-23T08:56:03.313
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I need to create a login form with 'username' 'password' fields and two buttons 'login' and 'cancel' in my android application.

I am using an alert dialog with edittext inside that.

This is the code I used to create password edittext..

     final EditText Password = new EditText(this);
     Password.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
     Password.setHint("Password");
     Password.setWidth(200);

     Password.setTransformationMethod(new PasswordTransformationMethod());
     login_alert.addView(Password);

My issue is that, plain text is shown instead of 'dots' when i open a softkeypad to edit the password. (It is shown as dots when not in softkeypad mode)

Can anyone suggest a solution?

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See this link text view android:password

This applies for EditText as well, as it is a known direct subclass of TextView.

answered 2011-05-23T09:00:22.190
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I found when doing this that in order to set the gravity to center, and still have your password hint show when using inputType, the android:gravity="Center" must be at the end of your XML line.

<EditText android:textColor="#000000" android:id="@+id/editText2" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:hint="Password" 
    android:background="@drawable/rounded_corner" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:nextFocusDown="@+id/imageButton1" 
    android:nextFocusRight="@+id/imageButton1" 
    android:nextFocusLeft="@+id/editText1"
    android:nextFocusUp="@+id/editText1" 
    android:inputType="textVisiblePassword" 
    android:textColorHint="#999999" 
    android:textSize="16dp" 
    android:gravity="center">
</EditText>
answered 2011-09-29T21:08:46.873

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