Android Studio Kotlin Firebase Authentication issues with email formatting - firebase

Question

First of all I'm very new to coding, so perhaps this will be easy to explain, but I've been stuck on it for several weeks and I can't seem to find the solution.
I'm doing a tutorial on Firebase authentication, and I'm trying to create a user with email and password. I keep getting this Log: "com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseAuthInvalidCredentialsException: The email address is badly formatted." I'm using a pixel5 emulator, latest version of Android Studio and compileSdk 33.
I will show you my code below:
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
binding = ActivityMainBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
setContentView(binding.root)
auth = Firebase.auth
val email = binding.enterEmailtxt.toString().trim()
val password = binding.enterPasstxt.toString().trim()
binding.CreateAcctBtn.setOnClickListener {
Log.d("EMAIL STRING:", email)
auth.createUserWithEmailAndPassword(email, password)
.addOnCompleteListener(this) {
task -\>
if (task.isSuccessful) {
var user: FirebaseUser? = auth.currentUser
if (user != null) {
Log.d("USER:", user.email.toString())
}
} else {
Log.d("USER FAIL:", task.exception.toString())
}
}
}
//I have this user in firebase already
auth.signInWithEmailAndPassword("email#gmail.com", "password123")
.addOnCompleteListener(this) {
task -\>
if (task.isSuccessful) {
//Sign is was successful
Log.d("SUCCESS:", "User signed in")
Toast.makeText(this, "Signed in Successfully", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
}else {
//Not successful
Log.d("FAILURE:", "User not signed in")
Toast.makeText(this, "Sign in not successful", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
}
}
}
public override fun onStart() {
super.onStart()
// Check if user is signed in (non-null) and update UI accordingly.
val currentUser = auth.currentUser
if (currentUser != null) {
Toast.makeText(this, "User is logged in", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
Log.d("LOGIN SUCCESS:", "User is logged in")
}else {
Toast.makeText(this, "User is logged out", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
Log.d("LOGIN FAILURE:", "User is logged out")
}
the "EMAIL STRING:" log is so I could see what email string Firebase is actually getting, and in logcat this is what I am seeing:
EMAIL STRING: com.example.introtokotlinfirebase D androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatEditText{8c1ff5b VFED..CL. ......I. 0,0-0,0 #7f0800ba app:id/enterEmailtxt}
Maybe that's normal?? Like I said I'm very new at this. I do have the input type as textEmailAddress in the XML.
I tried creating a user with several different email addresses that I know are legit, 1 is a gmail address.
I did have a lot of extra code commented out that I deleted just FYI
Thank you! in advance :)