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How to Get Text in an EditText and Save to a String
1.
Find an EditText using ID
, named
myEditText
.
2.
Declare a String Variable
named
StrEditText
.
3. In the onCreate method, add the below line. This will get the contents of the
myEditText
EditText and convert it to a string and save it to the String
strEditText
.
strEditText = myEditText.getText().toString();
4. Compile and run!
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