Wednesday, February 9, 2011

How to retrieve the String from EditText

The getText() method of EditText return a object of Editable, not String. In order to retrieve the text of EditText, toString() of Editable can be used.

 EditText myEditText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.myedittext);
 ...
 String stringEditText = myEditText.getText().toString();


2 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 29, 2015 at 6:28 AM

    EditText input = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);


    The app crashes with this code.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2018 at 2:41 AM

    You forgot the layout from where the Text should read.

    try this:

    EditText input = (EditText) layout.findViewById(R.id.editText);

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