Create Material Text Field in an android application: 10 minutes
Material
Text Field
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- Jan 20th, 2021
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Create Material Text Field in an android application using animation.
Creating New Project
- Create a new project in Android Studio from File ⇒ New Project. When selecting Empty Activity and proceed.
- Add materialtextfield dependency to your build.gradle and rebuild the project.
dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'
implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test:runner:1.0.1'
androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.0.1'
implementation 'com.github.florent37:materialtextfield:1.0.7'
}
Choosing the Colors
- Open colors.xml located under res ⇒ values and add the below color values.
colors.XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<color name="colorPrimary">#3F51B5</color>
<color name="colorPrimaryDark">#303F9F</color>
<color name="colorAccent">#FF4081</color>
</resources>
- Open Style.xml located under res ⇒ values and add the below values.
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
</style>
<style name="DrawerArrowStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.DrawerArrowToggle">
<item name="spinBars">true</item>
<item name="color">@android:color/white</item>
</style>
</resources>
Create four XML layouts named activity_login.xml under res ⇒ layouts.
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#4644aa"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#3FFF"/>
<com.github.florent37.materialtextfield.MaterialTextField
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
android:layout_marginRight="4dp"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
app:mtf_cardCollapsedHeight="4dp"
app:mtf_hasFocus="false"
app:mtf_image="@drawable/ic_email_black_24dp"
app:mtf_openKeyboardOnFocus="true">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Email"
android:maxLines="1"
android:textColor="@android:color/white"
android:textColorHint="@android:color/white"
android:textSize="15sp" />
</com.github.florent37.materialtextfield.MaterialTextField>
<com.github.florent37.materialtextfield.MaterialTextField
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
android:layout_marginRight="4dp"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
app:mtf_cardCollapsedHeight="4dp"
app:mtf_hasFocus="false"
app:mtf_image="@drawable/ic_lock_outline_black_24dp"
app:mtf_openKeyboardOnFocus="true">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Password"
android:maxLines="1"
android:textColor="@android:color/white"
android:textColorHint="@android:color/white"
android:textSize="15sp" />
</com.github.florent37.materialtextfield.MaterialTextField>
</LinearLayout>
- Open MenuActivity.java and modify the code as below.
package textfeild.wappteh.com.textfeild;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
public class LoginActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_login);
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.WHITE);
final ActionBar supportActionBar = getSupportActionBar();
if (supportActionBar != null) {
supportActionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}
}
}
- Create other fragment pages like home, setting, profile, calendar
- After Finally open AndroidManifest.XML and make WelcomeActivity as launcher activity.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="textfeild.wappteh.com.textfeild">
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
<activity android:name=".LoginActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<meta-data
android:name="io.fabric.ApiKey"
android:value="29cbd600bb8183011201895a931db91e93f2d614" />
</application>
</manifest>