EditText hint not show

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
//  //www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(new SampleView(this));
	}

	   private static class SampleView extends View {
	        private Rect    mRect;
	        private GradientDrawable mDrawable;

	        public SampleView(Context context) {
	            super(context);
	            setFocusable(true);

	            mRect = new Rect(0, 0, 220, 120);
	      
/*	            GradientDrawable.Orientation  BL_TR  draw the gradient from the bottom-left to the top-right   
	              BOTTOM_TOP  draw the gradient from the bottom to the top   
	              BR_TL  draw the gradient from the bottom-right to the top-left   
	              LEFT_RIGHT  draw the gradient from the left to the right   
	              RIGHT_LEFT  draw the gradient from the right to the left   
	              TL_BR  draw the gradient from the top-left to the bottom-right   
	              TOP_BOTTOM  draw the gradient from the top to the bottom   
	              TR_BL  draw the gradient from the top-right to the bottom-left   
*/
	            
	            mDrawable = new GradientDrawable(GradientDrawable.Orientation.LEFT_RIGHT,
	                                             new int[] { 0xFFFF0000, 0xFF00FF00,
	                                                 0xFF0000FF });
	            mDrawable.setShape(GradientDrawable.RECTANGLE);
	            mDrawable.setGradientRadius((float)(Math.sqrt(2) * 60));
	        }
	        
	        static void setCornerRadius(GradientDrawable drawable, float r0,
	                                   float r1, float r2, float r3) {
/*	        	setCornerRadii
	        	Specify radii for each of the 4 corners. For each corner, 
	        	the array contains 2 values, [X_radius, Y_radius]. 
	        	The corners are ordered top-left, top-right, bottom-right, 
	        	bottom-left 
*/
	            drawable.setCornerRadii(new float[] { r0, r0, r1, r1,
	                                                  r2, r2, r3, r3 });
	        }
	        
	        @Override protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
	            
	            mDrawable.setBounds(mRect);

	            float r = 35;
	            
	            canvas.save();
	            canvas.translate(10, 10);
	            mDrawable.setGradientType(GradientDrawable.LINEAR_GRADIENT);
	            setCornerRadius(mDrawable, r, r, 0, 0);
	            mDrawable.draw(canvas);
	            canvas.restore();
	            
	            canvas.translate(0, mRect.height() + 10);
	            canvas.save();
	            canvas.translate(10, 10);
	            mDrawable.setGradientType(GradientDrawable.RADIAL_GRADIENT);
	            setCornerRadius(mDrawable, 0, 0, r, r);
	            mDrawable.draw(canvas);
	            canvas.restore();
	            
	            canvas.translate(0, mRect.height() + 10);
	            canvas.save();
	            canvas.translate(10, 10);
	            mDrawable.setGradientType(GradientDrawable.SWEEP_GRADIENT);
	            setCornerRadius(mDrawable, 0, r, r, 0);
	            mDrawable.draw(canvas);
	            canvas.restore();
	            
	            
	        }
	    }
	}

Spinner in Android application is equivalent of ComboBox in WinApi.
Spinner get selected item to string example.
Spinner get selected item position to int example.

Main activity class MainComboBox.java

public class MainComboBox extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
        ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
                this, R.array.countries_array, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
        adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
        spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new MyOnItemSelectedListener());

        Button myButton =(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
        myButton.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
            	
            Spinner sp =	(Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinner);
            String spinnerString = null;
            spinnerString = sp.getSelectedItem().toString();
            int nPos = sp.getSelectedItemPosition();
            
             
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "getSelectedItem=" + spinnerString,
                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "getSelectedItemPosition=" + nPos,
                		Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }
        });
    }
}

File MyOnItemSelectedListener.java

public  class MyOnItemSelectedListener implements OnItemSelectedListener {

    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent,
        View view, int pos, long id) {
      Toast.makeText(parent.getContext(), "Item is " +
          parent.getItemAtPosition(pos).toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView parent) {
      // Do nothing.
    }
}

strings.xml

<resources>
    <string name="hello">Hello World, MainComboBox!</string>
    <string name="app_name">ComboBox</string>
    <string name="prompt">Choose a country</string>
    <string-array name="countries_array">
        <item>China</item>
        <item>India</item>
        <item>USA</item>
        <item>Indonesia</item>
        <item>Brazil</item>
        <item>Pakistan</item>
        <item>Nigeria</item>
        <item>Bangladesh</item>
        <item>Russia</item>
    </string-array>    
</resources>

main.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="//schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:padding="10dip"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
        android:text="@string/prompt"
    />
    <Spinner 
        android:id="@+id/spinner"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:prompt="@string/prompt"
    />
    <Button android:text="Button" android:id="@+id/button1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></Button>

</LinearLayout>

MainActivity.java

        ProgressBar mProgressBarScore;
      // onCreate
	mProgressBarScore = (ProgressBar)findViewById(R.id.progressBarScore);
	Resources res = getResources();
	mProgressBarScore.setProgressDrawable(res.getDrawable( R.drawable.my_progress));

res/layout/main.xml

       <ProgressBar
            android:id="@+id/progressBarScore"
            style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:max="100"/>

res/drawable/my_progress.xml

    

        

        

                        android:startColor="#FF001A"

                android:centerColor="#ff5a5d5a"

                android:centerY="0.75"

                android:endColor="#FF001A"

                android:angle="270"

        />

    







    

        

            

                                android:startColor="#80ffd300"

                    android:centerColor="#80ffb600"

                    android:centerY="0.75"

                    android:endColor="#a0ffcb00"

                    android:angle="270"

            />

        

    



    android:id="@android:id/progress"

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                            android:radius="10dip" />

                            android:startColor="#00ff00"

                android:centerColor="#80ffb600"

                android:centerY="0.75"

                android:endColor="#339900"

                android:angle="270" />

        

    

How set JAVA path to Environment Variables on Windows (7)
Select Start menu > Computer > System Properties > Advanced System Settings(properties).
Then open Advanced tab > Environment Variables and add a new system variable JAVA_HOME that points to your JDK folder, for example

 C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05

If project is in workspace and only not visible in project explorer using this:

Click on some project in project explorer
Menu:
File
Import project
Existing Projects into Workspace