Android : Typeface is changed when i apply password Type on EditText

Question

I use FloatLabel library (https://github.com/weddingparty/AndroidFloatLabel) to add a little animation when user begin to write something in an EditText Android.

My problem is that the typeface seems to be changed when i apply the password type to my EditText. I would like to keep the same typeface as normal. (see picture 1)

But when i add the following line to apply password type, the typeface of hint seems to be changed !

pass.getEditText().setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD);

Solution 1

The following might solve it for you.

pass.setTypeface(user.getTypeface());

Essentially it just passes the Typeface of your username field and passes it as the Typeface for your password field.

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I found an explanation of this in the Dialogs API Guide.

Tip: By default, when you set an EditText element to use the "textPassword" input type, the font family is set to monospace, so you should change its font family to "sans-serif" so that both text fields use a matching font style.

In otherwords, a fix that can be done in XML would be as follows:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/password"
    android:inputType="textPassword"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
    android:hint="@string/password"/>

Solution 2

For some reason I didn't have to set the transformation method so this may be a better solution. In MyActivity:

  EditText editText_password = findViewById(R.id.edittext);
    editText_password.setTransformationMethod(new PasswordTransformationMethod());

Solution 3

you can use android:hit, and setHitColor in your activity, it will not affect the normal input

Solution 4

Set the inputType as "text" in the xml,

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/edtPassword"
    android:inputType="textPassword"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="@string/password"
    android:inputType="text"/>

Then make the EditText in the activity as

mEdtConfirmPassword = findViewById(R.id.edtPassword);
mEdtConfirmPassword.setTransformationMethod(new PasswordTransformationMethod());

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Comments

[Muhammad Babar]

fontFamily is introduced in api level 16! what for 2.2?

[1mike12]

This is exactly the solution. Without having to set thing in code with setTypeface() and setTransformationMethod(), which don't even work fully because the next letters that you type are hidden and not shown

[Ravi Vaniya]

what is user ?

[Jordan H]

This is the only thing that worked for me when using a custom font - set inputType back to text and then set the transformation