Apps Text box question

[Iguy29]

Hi, I was just working on an app, and I noticed that I could use the Edit Text in the layout to create a place for the user to input text. There is only one problem, how would you access that text and put it into, say a string? Thanks in advance!

 

[Boogs]

In your onCreate() method, capture the EditText object, like so:

final EditText edit = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edit_text_name_in_XML_file);

Then, you can use the methods of the EditText object to get/set its contents, like so:

edit.setText("Hello!");
String sayWhat = edit.getText();

It's that easy!

--Boogs

 

[cp1]

Go through the notepad tutorial -- it's got a lot of edit text info.