Any way to Iconify EditText/AutoCompleteTextView hints?

[squeeish]

Has anyone found a way to do that?

[JoanZapata]

What is your need exactly? Allow the user to type anything and when he types {fa-something} the icon appear instead? I don't think that would be a good user experience.

[squeeish]

Nope, what I meant was to have something like:

<AutoCompleteTextView
        android:id="@+id/actvSearch"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/hint_search_with_icon
        />

Where <string name="hint_search_with_icon">{fa-search} Search</string>

I could do a drawableLeft and all that, but I was just wondering if this was possible :)

[JoanZapata]

Oh I see, you meant for the hint. It's definitely possible, I think all you have to do is to subclass AutoCompleteTextView and override setHint(CharSequence) like this.

Also, you might want to consider this lib: https://github.com/DayS/EnhancedEditText/

[JoanZapata]

@squeeish Does that answer you question?

[squeeish]

@JoanZapata my apologies, been busy these few days. I'll try it out now and update! :)

[JoanZapata]

No worry, I was just checking :)

[JoanZapata]

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