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[TextInputLayout] wrap the hint text
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Description
When I set the hint text on TextInputLayout, it doesn't wrap the hint text when in wrap_content layout mode, like so:
I don't know if it's the intended result. But I want it expand the view and display the full hint text by default, like:
Currently my workaround is to add the same hint text to the child TextInputEditText and set android:textColorHint to transparent.
I searched and found this on Stackoverflow, but not finding an seemingly elegant way to achieve this. So may
I ask for an extra option or XML attribute if possible, to make the TIL wrap the hint text, or there can be a better way to do this?
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the TextInputLayout hint behavior with wrap_content, comparing the TextInputLayout hint with the child TextInputEditText workaround described in the issue. No source file or test is named; done should mean a long hint expands and wraps in the layout without duplicating the hint or making it transparent.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100