Password hint font in Android

Changing the typeface in xml didn't work on the hint text for me either. I found two different solutions, the second of which has better behavior for me:

1) Remove android:inputType="textPassword" from your xml file and instead, in set it in java:

EditText password = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.password_text);
password.setTransformationMethod(new PasswordTransformationMethod());

With this approach, the hint font looks good but as you're typing in that edit field, you don't see each character in plain text before it turns into a password dot. Also when making input in fullscreen, the dots will not appear, but the password in clear text.

2) Leave android:inputType="textPassword" in your xml. In Java, ALSO set the typeface and passwordMethod:

EditText password = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.register_password_text);
password.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT);
password.setTransformationMethod(new PasswordTransformationMethod());

This approach gave me the hint font I wanted AND gives me the behavior I want with the password dots.

Hope that helps!

This is what I did to fix this problem. For some reason I didn't have to set the transformation method so this may be a better solution:

In my xml:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/password_edit_field"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="Password"
    android:inputType="textPassword" />

In my Activity:

EditText password = (EditText) findViewById( R.id.password_edit_field );
password.setTypeface( Typeface.DEFAULT );

I found this useful tip from Dialogs Guide

Tip: By default, when you set an EditText element to use the "textPassword" input type, the font family is set to monospace, so you should change its font family to "sans-serif" so that both text fields use a matching font style.

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For example

android:fontFamily="sans-serif"