how to make hint disappear when edittext is touched?

You can also custom your XML code by using Selector. Here is an example code.

Create a selector. In file selector.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">    <item android:state_focused="true" android:color="@android:color/transparent" />    <item android:color="@color/gray" /></selector>

In your view

android:textColorHint="@drawable/selector"

Hint only disappears when you type in any text, not on focus. I don't think that there is any automatic way to do it, may be I am wrong. However, as a workaround I use the following code to remove hint on focus in EditText

myEditText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {        if (hasFocus)            myEditText.setHint("");        else            myEditText.setHint("Your hint");    }});

Here's my solution, where the hint disappear when user focus editText and appears again when focus changes to other place if the edittext is still empty:

editText.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {    @Override    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {        editText.setHint("");        return false;    }});editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {    @Override    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {        if (!hasFocus) {            editText.setHint("Hint");        }    }});

hope this helps someone