How to set error message in edittext android

Velmurugan Murugesan
1 min readSep 14, 2020

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This is very useful when you want to show the error messages for the Edittext field when the user enters wrong information.this is a very simple program only you have to use serError() method in the Edittext.

Step 1

Create button and implement onClickListener.

btnLogin.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});

Step 2

Validate the input fields and set the error in the input field.

if(edName.length()>3){
if(edNumber.length()>3){
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Login success", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}else{
edNumber.setError("Number Mininum length is 4");
}
}else{
edName.setError("Name Mininum length is 4");
}

Screenshot

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Velmurugan Murugesan
Velmurugan Murugesan

Written by Velmurugan Murugesan

Lead Android Engineer @htcindia | @github contributor | Blog writer @howtodoandroid | Quick Learner

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