23.6 Adding the EditText View

The next item to be added to the layout is the EditText view. The first step is to create the EditText object, assign it the ID as declared in the id.xml resource file and add it to the layout. The code changes to achieve these steps now need to be made to the onCreate() method as follows:

private void configureLayout() {

    Button myButton = new Button(this);

    myButton.setText(getString(R.string.press_me));

    myButton.setBackgroundColor(Color.YELLOW);

    myButton.setId(R.id.myButton);

 

    EditText myEditText = new EditText(this);

    myEditText.setId(R.id.myEditText);

 

    ConstraintLayout myLayout = new ConstraintLayout(this);

    myLayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);

 

    myLayout.addView(myButton);

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