EditText cursor is not visible on Android 5.0 (Lollipop)

Question

The EditText cursor is visible on Android 4.0 or a lower version, but in the Android 5.0 (Lollipop) version it is not showing. How can I fix this?

Maybe your cursor has the same colour as background? You can change your cursor's colour to something other that background colour and check. — questioner, May 21 '15 at 13:03
I've solved this problem to do like this [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15527420/custom-cursor-color-in-searchview). — Rooney, May 22 '15 at 01:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 06 '18 at 08:52

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Add android:cursorVisible="true"and android:focusableInTouchMode="true" in your XML file.

Example:

<EditText 
    android:id="@+id/textLabel"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:cursorVisible="true" 
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"/>

Sometimes EditText requires focus to show the cursor so maybe it will help you.

edited Oct 06 '18 at 08:52

Peter Mortensen

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 06 '18 at 08:53

I've solved this problem to do it like this link.

The problem is that I was using it like this:

<EditText
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:maxLength="50"
    android:textColor="#666666"
    android:textCursorDrawable="#666666"/>

If you are going to use textCursorDrawable, you should use drawable res to the value like this:

android:textCursorDrawable="@drawable/red_cursor"

EditText cursor is not visible on Android 5.0 (Lollipop)

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