Android add placeholder text to EditText

In your Activity

<EditText
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
                android:background="@null"
                android:hint="Text Example"
                android:padding="5dp"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:id="@+id/name"
                android:textColor="@color/magenta"/>

Ah, ok. What you're looking for is setHint(int). Simply pass in a resource id of a string from your xml and you're good to go.

EDIT

And in XML, it's simply android:hint="someText"

android:hint="text" provides an info for user that what he need to fill in particular editText

for example :- i have two edittext one for numeric value and other for string value . we can set a hint for user so he can understand that what value he needs to give

android:hint="Please enter phone number"
android:hint="Enter name" 

after running app these two edittext will show the entered hint ,after click on edit text it goes and user can enter what he want (see luxurymode image)