appium/appium — pull request #3785 by paymand (2014-10-08 08:29:03+00:00)
Title: Made clearing text faster on Android when there is hint text.

We try several approaches to clear text on Android and only check
for hint text at the end. This can be made faster if we check for
hint text after each clear attempt.
Also modified hasHintText() a bit to make it more reliable.