i want the line under EditText to stay put

Question

When typing in an edit text that blue line comes up under it. i want it to stay there w even when not tying. This is because i have a dark background and your cant see that there is an input field there. If anyone has an other idea on how to see the EditText input please advise. thanks

Answer 1

The drawable you are looking for is named textfield_multiline_activated_holo_dark.9.png and can be found in ...\android-sdk\platforms\android-**\data\res\drawable-*dpi. Copy all of them to your project and then add the following to your EditText in your xml layout file:

android:background="@drawable/textfield_multiline_activated_holo_dark"

And, if necessary, change the text color there like this:

android:textColor="@android:color/white"