I am reporting another regression bug since this original post 5 years ago: floattext of a TextField overlaps with initial text content instead of floating up
As a workaround, when I view a form that may or may not have data prepopulated in it, I check if the String I intend to set into the Textfield is empty. If so, then I append a single space in it. This way, as the User visits the same View of different records, the Textfield's floating text will always be floating above instead of overlaying possible form data text. But this means, even if the Textfield seems empty to the User, the float text is still a label over the Textfield every time.