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setText of the TextInputEditText does not change - Kotlin
Hey fello developers 🖐️
I've been trying to change the text value of the TextInputEditText programatically to save the activity state on orientation as it gets lost, but the setText(text: CharSequence!) doesn't work even when passing explicit String as its arguments.
Here's a snippet of the code of the activity in activity_main.xml




And here's the Kotlin code in MainActivity.kt
lateinit var uriTxt: TextInputEditText

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {...