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Discussion on: Quick Tip – How to tell the user what to put in an EditText ?

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Loki Le DEV

What do you mean by placeholder?
The hint is the text displayed when the editText is empty to hint the user about what to type.

If you want to see some text in the editor there is also the attribute tools:text.

tools:text documentation

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10x learner

I though that a hint or a placeholder where the same in this case, meaning that it was an element place to indicate what to put in an empty field.

Your comment had me look to the definition of placeholder, and my definition was not good ! I will edit this article to remove this error.

Thank you for pointing it out :-D