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How to customize the places UI ?

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, java
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Review the Places plugin implementation linked from the Android fragment documentation, starting at the dialog or fragment entry point and its search EditText. Verify how focus and hint text are configured, then document the supported customization path or identify what information is missing.

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Description

Hello,
I'm using the places plugin of that library.
I'm using it in a dilaog: https://docs.mapbox.com/android/plugins/overview/places/#display-as-a-fragment

Now I have 2 problems:

1- I want to know how could I set focus dynamically to the search EditText there ?
2- How could I change the hint text of the search editText ?

On image below, The search input has not focus while the keyboard is shown:
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Thanks too much.

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