On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Stéphane Bruno
<mysubscripti...@websystems.ht> wrote:
> I am trying to programmatically select all the text in an EditText field
> when a user touches the field so that when the user starts typing it
> replaces the existing text (I cannot use settings in the XML file because
> this field is programmatically added to the screen).

setHint() is an available method, used to set the hint text from Java.

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