Set hints using kotlin

In this blog, we will try to make our users understand how they can set hints using kotlin programming language. Kotlin is the programming language that basically deals with the android application development. This language is as well as used by the company’s like google and many more.

 

 

Set hints using kotlin

There are various ways to solve the same. The first one is:

 

1. Setting Hint to EditText

How to set a suggestion in Java for EditText

editText.setHint("Study Experts")
// Lint message: "Use property access syntax"

Output

 

How to set a suggestion in Kotlin for EditText

editText.hint = "Study Experts"
// entirely okay

Output

 

 

 

2. Making Text Editable

Setting text to EditText in Java

editText.setText ("Study Experts")
/ perfectly fine (no lint message)

Output

 

 

 

3. Setting text to EditText in Kotlin

edit "Study Experts" says text.text
/ Type mismatch: kotlin is the inferred type.
but /android.text.Editable for strings! was predicted

Output

 

 

As one can see all the above codes lead to the same results. These are only the different ways of doing the same. 

 

In Kotlin, methods that adhere to the Java getter and setter conventions—no-argument methods with names beginning with “get” and single-argument methods with names beginning with “set”—are denoted as properties.

 

However, Kotlin looks for a getter first when creating a property for a Java getter/setter combination. The getter is sufficient to deduce the type of the property from the getter’s type. However, if there is simply a setter, the property won’t be generated (because Kotlin does not support set-only properties at this time).

 

 

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