how to clear EditText's Content in android ?

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hi guys . iam working on my android application . i created an activity . this activity has two EditText . one of them is used for User name and another one for password . now I want to create a method to clear (Edit Text) which is clicked by user . i tried to get (EditText)'s id . i thought , if i have (EditText)'s id , i can remove the content but it did'nt work . surprisingly i got an exotic id . i used this method to get EditText's id but it Showed me a number ! i didnt use this number as id at all !

Java

public void getViewId(View view){
        int id=view.getId();
        Toast.makeText(this, String.valueOf(id), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

id: 2131296262

HTML

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/etUserName"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/first_input_margin"
    android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/first_input_margin"
    android:layout_marginBottom="@dimen/first_input_margin"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/first_input_margin"
    android:textSize="@dimen/first_input_txt"
    android:removed="@color/White"
    android:text="Enter your User Name"
    android:/>

as you see the id is "etUserName" not a numeric id ! i think this number is fastened to EditText during the run time .
can i clear EditText's Content whit this numeric id ? or i have to change my method ? thank you for letting me know .

Posted 18-Jan-15 9:50am

seyed mahmud shahrokni

Updated 18-Jan-15 10:11am

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Solution 1

Here's my code for TextView.

1 . Reference to View

this.inputText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.catText);

2. set text

this.inputText.setText("");

Posted 18-Jan-15 10:28am

BacchusBeale

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seyed mahmud shahrokni · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-18T21:31:00

i found it . this is my solution .
as you know i have more than one EditText . but our method has to clear EditText which is clicked by user .
the only thing you should do is to get id and use it to clear specific Edit Text .
i think android produce a numeric id for every Elements in activity during the Run time . this id is not same as id which you used for view . this is a numeric id , and also this id is unique .

Java

 public void  ClearEt(View view){
    int id=view.getId();
    EditText et=(EditText)findViewById(id);
    et.setText("");

}