setText doesn't set text to EditText

onActivityResult() is not the last method called when returning to an Activity. You can refresh your memory of the Life Cycle in the docs. :)

As we discussed in the comments, if you call setText() again in methods like onResume() this will override any text set in onActivityResult().

The same goes for Fragments, you need to make updates in onViewStateRestored() method (which was added in API 17).

Some times changing edittext in onactivity result is not working. I too faced the same problem

instead of setting

edittext.settext("yourtext");

change to following in onactivityresult

edittext.post(new Runnable(){
edittext.settext("yourtext");
});

It worked for me.

First of all you have to debug this.

There is a class called TextWatcher. This will be called every time your Textbox.Text will change. So this is easier to debug and handle the problem. Url: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/TextWatcher.html

Example for implementation:

name.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

        doSomething();



    } 

});

Good luck :)