Toasting password textview

Question

I am trying to toast a string that is pulling from a password EditText but my result is coming up blank.

I am guessing that this is because the edit text is a password type of field and it is encoded somehow but I don't know how else to get around this.

Obviously I don't want to toast the password in the live app, this is for testing purposes, but even in my non-toast test, it still is not working.

Here is my simple code:

public void SubmitRegistration(View view) {

           // assign text in fields to string values
           EditText first = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.first);
           String first2 = first.getText().toString();

           EditText last = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.last);
           String last2 = last.getText().toString();

           EditText display = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.display);
           String display2 = display.getText().toString();

           EditText email = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.email);
           String email2 = email.getText().toString();

           EditText password = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.password);
           String password2 = password.getText().toString();

           EditText vpassword = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.vpassword);
           String vpassword2 = vpassword.getText().toString();   

           Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "password 1 = " + password2, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
           // if passwords match, send php url

           if(vpassword2 == password2)
           {
               new RequestTask().execute("http://test");       
           }
           else { 
               Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Passwords do not match!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); 
           }        
   }

Answer 1

First, you have shown us two EditTexts referenced by password ans vpassword identifiers but getting the password text from a different EditText referenced by first identifier...

may be you want to do like this...

       EditText password = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.password);
       String password2 = password.getText().toString();

       EditText vpassword = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.vpassword);
       String vpassword2 = vpassword.getText().toString();

second, don't use == operator when comparing Strings. use equals() method...

 vpassword2.equals(password2);