Yep, that would appear to be it.  (Sorry I besmirched the good name of
Android ;) )

On Oct 14, 1:51 pm, Daniel Drozdzewski <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:26 PM, DanH <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Other platforms have a facility for specifying prompt text to appear
> > in a text entry box, but I don't see an Android way to do it (though
> > I'm no expert).  You could easily fake it, though, by making the
> > background of the EditText transparent and placing a TextView behind
> > it containing the prompt text.  Clear the prompt text with the first
> > keystroke in the EditText.
>
> Have a look at:
>
> TextView.setHint(int resid)
>
> --
> Daniel Drozdzewski

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