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Add dash/hyphen after 4 digits in edittext in android

I was implemented like after 4 digits hyphen display automatically like(2015-07) in edittext. my code works fine, but problem is while i delete before 4 digits value and again type it not working. addTextChangedListener not trigger when i edidtext retype like 2015-07 to 2014-07. But while i using "/" instead of "-" i can retype value. What is the problem?
mEdtProductionCode.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
int prevL = 0;
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
prevL = mEdtProductionCode.getText().toString().length();
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
int length = s.length();
if ((prevL < length) && length == 4) {
String data = mEdtProductionCode.getText().toString();
mEdtProductionCode.setText(data + "-");
mEdtProductionCode.setSelection(length + 1);
}
}
});

You should just move your character checking to the character after the fifth character has been entered, and then chop down String to put the custom character in between:
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
int length = s.length();
if ((prevL <= length) && length == 5) {
String data = mEditProductionCode.getText().toString();
String beginData = data.substring(0,4);
String endData = Character.toString(data.charAt(length-1));
mEditProductionCode.setText(beginData + "-" + endData);
mEditProductionCode.setSelection(length + 1);
}
}
You can also use data.charAt(length-1) != '-' to check if user manually made dash input, in which case you just ignore and do not make changes to TextEdit.

Customize editext input in android

How can I customize input type of editext shown in the given figure.Basically my requirement is that edittext should show only the last 3 or 4 digits only initial 12 digit should be in password mode.

You need to add a TextWatcher onto the EditText:
int characterCount = 0;
int asteriskCount = 0;
CharSequence input = null;
input.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
characterCount = count;
//update input sequence based on changes.
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
//update input sequence based on changes.
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
if (asteriskCount != characterCount) {
//make the visible sequence here.
CharSequence seq = "";
for (int i = 0; i < (characterCount <= 12 ? characterCount : 12); i++) {
seq = seq + "*";
}
if (characterCount > 12) {
for (int i = 12; i < characterCount; i++) {
seq = seq + characterCount.charAt(i);
}
}
asteriskCount = characterCount;
input.setText(seq);
}
}
});

There is no built in feature like this. So you have to do it by yourself. You have to make change on the text when the text is changed. To do so .
If you create a custom editText by extending EditText then you can overwrite the onTextChanged method and hanlde the changes.
Or you can use a TextWatcher to hadle changes.
So when the text is changed set the data except last 3 digitst to *.
But remember that you have to use a String field to store original data in a field.

Below is the code snippet of my TextWatcher:
private boolean spaceDeleted;
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
characterCount = start;
//update input sequence based on changes.
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
int after) {
// check if a space was deleted
CharSequence charDeleted = s.subSequence(start, start + count);
spaceDeleted = " ".equals(charDeleted.toString());
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
if(s.length()>12){
return;
}
System.out.println("Character Count in afterTextChange->"+characterCount);
System.out.println("Editable Character->"+s);
ccNumber.removeTextChangedListener(this);
// record cursor position as setting the text in the textview
// places the cursor at the end
int cursorPosition = ccNumber.getSelectionStart();
String withSpaces = formatText(s);
ccNumber.setText(withSpaces);
// set the cursor at the last position + the spaces added since the
// space are always added before the cursor
ccNumber.setSelection(cursorPosition + (withSpaces.length() - s.length()));
// if a space was deleted also deleted just move the cursor
// before the space
if (spaceDeleted) {
ccNumber.setSelection(ccNumber.getSelectionStart() - 1);
spaceDeleted = false;
}
// enable text watcher
ccNumber.addTextChangedListener(this);
}
private String formatText(CharSequence s) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
StringBuilder formatted = new StringBuilder();
int count = 0;
/* if(s.length()<12){
formatted.append("*");
}else{
formatted.append(s.charAt(characterCount));
}*/
for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i)
{
formatted.append("*");
/*if (Character.isDigit(s.charAt(i)))
{
if (count % 4 == 0 && count > 0)
formatted.append(" ");
formatted.append(s.charAt(i));
++count;
}*/
}
return formatted.toString();
}
});

Using spannable in edittext in android

I put this code from answer Displaying emoticons in Android for showing emoticons in Edittext but I have a problem when I'm typing a lot of text, it becomes slower and slower and almost impossible to type.
This is the code: How can I make it faster?
textS.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
addSmiledText(Main.this, s);
// Log.e("",s.toString());
}
});}
private static final HashMap<String, Integer> emoticons = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
static {
emoticons.put(":)", R.drawable.face_smile);
emoticons.put(":-)", R.drawable.face_smile);
emoticons.put(":(", R.drawable.face_sad);
emoticons.put(":-(", R.drawable.face_sad);
emoticons.put(":-D", R.drawable.face_smile_big);
emoticons.put(":D", R.drawable.face_smile_big);
emoticons.put(":lol:", R.drawable.face_laughing);
emoticons.put("8)", R.drawable.face_cool);
emoticons.put(";)", R.drawable.face_wink);
emoticons.put(";-)", R.drawable.face_wink);
emoticons.put(";(", R.drawable.face_crying);
...
}
public static Spannable addSmiledText(Context ch, Editable s) {
int index;
for (index = 0; index < s.length(); index++) {
for (Entry<String, Integer> entry : emoticons.entrySet()) {
int length = entry.getKey().length();
if (index + length > s.length())
continue;
if (s.subSequence(index, index + length).toString().equals(entry.getKey())) {
s.setSpan(new ImageSpan(ch, entry.getValue()), index, index + length, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
index += length - 1;
break;
}
}
}
return s;
}

how to make it to scan only two last characters?
You have:
for (index = 0; index < s.length(); index++)
If you do not want to scan the entire string each time, choose a better starting value for index.
For example, since your minimum-length emoticon has two characters and your maximum-length emoticon has five characters, skip the loop entirely for Editable objects of length 0 or 1, and then have index start at s.length()-5.
Note, though, that afterTextChanged() is not only called for changes at the end. The user might have repositioned the cursor to be somewhere in the middle. Hence, you really should be scanning in onTextChanged() and looking at the window of text around the point of the change.

In order to scan last 2 characters instead of
for (index = 0; index < s.length(); index++)
use
int start = s.length() - 1;
int end = start - 2;
for (index = start; index > end; index--)
This way you start looping from the last element backwards until you looped 2 positions.

How to restrict the User to put more than two decimal points on the Edit Text

We have Edittext which can take Decimal value. So I have used
android:inputType="numberDecimal"
android:numeric="decimal"
Now EditText takes decimal values. My Query is can I control the user to enter only upto two decimal places?
For example 1345.99, he cannot put more than two digit after decimal point.

there can be two solution,
1) let user not allow after he entered something like this xxx.xx.
2) let him enter it and when saving the value or taking an action on the screen, Check the value of edittext and generate a toast if the value entered is not in the desired format.
for second solution here you go. /
String str = editText.getText().toString();
int indexOFdec = str.indexOf(".");
if(indexOFdec >=0) {
if(str.substring(indexOFdec).length() >2)
{
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Print a message here", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return;
}
}
let me know if it works.

Although I'm not sure if you can do this in XML, a good workaround would be to just make a substring of the EditText after calling getText.toString() and extract the necessary tokens. Just look for the decimal character "." in the String and extract the 2 indexes after it.

I found this on another website, but SO won't let me link, saying that this content is not allowed in an answer.
This implementation of InputFilter solves the problem:
import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.text.method.DigitsKeyListener;
public class MoneyValueFilter extends DigitsKeyListener {
public MoneyValueFilter() {
super(false, true);
}
private int digits = 2;
public void setDigits(int d) {
digits = d;
}
#Override
public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end,
Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
CharSequence out = super.filter(source, start, end, dest, dstart, dend);
// if changed, replace the source
if (out != null) {
source = out;
start = 0;
end = out.length();
}
int len = end - start;
// if deleting, source is empty
// and deleting can't break anything
if (len == 0) {
return source;
}
int dlen = dest.length();
// Find the position of the decimal .
for (int i = 0; i < dstart; i++) {
if (dest.charAt(i) == '.') {
// being here means, that a number has
// been inserted after the dot
// check if the amount of digits is right
return (dlen-(i+1) + len > digits) ?
"" :
new SpannableStringBuilder(source, start, end);
}
}
for (int i = start; i < end; ++i) {
if (source.charAt(i) == '.') {
// being here means, dot has been inserted
// check if the amount of digits is right
if ((dlen-dend) + (end-(i + 1)) > digits)
return "";
else
break; // return new SpannableStringBuilder(source, start, end);
}
}
// if the dot is after the inserted part,
// nothing can break
return new SpannableStringBuilder(source, start, end);
}
}

Use TextWatcher to check how many points does your EditText contains. In case the number of points is more then one edit text of EditText.
EditText et = new EditText(this);
et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
}
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
// Logic to check how many points does contain your EditText
}
});

How can I implement digit grouping input mask using InputFilter?

I am using InputFilter class to make a masked EditText supporting digit grouping. For example when the user inserts" 12345" I want to show "12,345" in EditText. How can I implement it?
This is my incomplete code:
InputFilter IF = new InputFilter() {
#Override
public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end,
Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
if (!Character.isLetterOrDigit(source.charAt(i))) {
return "";
}
}
if (dest.length() > 0 && dest.length() % 3 == 0)
{
return "," + source;
}
return null;
}
};
edtRadius.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { IF });
Is there any other way to implement this kind of input mask?

This an improvement on the response from #vincent. It adds checks on deleting spaces in a number in the format 1234 5678 9190 so when trying to delete a space it just moves the cursor backon character to the digit before the space. It also keeps the cursor in the same relative place even if spaces are inserted.
mTxtCardNumber.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
private boolean spaceDeleted;
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
}
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
// check if a space was deleted
CharSequence charDeleted = s.subSequence(start, start + count);
spaceDeleted = " ".equals(charDeleted.toString());
}
public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
// disable text watcher
mTxtCardNumber.removeTextChangedListener(this);
// record cursor position as setting the text in the textview
// places the cursor at the end
int cursorPosition = mTxtCardNumber.getSelectionStart();
String withSpaces = formatText(editable);
mTxtCardNumber.setText(withSpaces);
// set the cursor at the last position + the spaces added since the
// space are always added before the cursor
mTxtCardNumber.setSelection(cursorPosition + (withSpaces.length() - editable.length()));
// if a space was deleted also deleted just move the cursor
// before the space
if (spaceDeleted) {
mTxtCardNumber.setSelection(mTxtCardNumber.getSelectionStart() - 1);
spaceDeleted = false;
}
// enable text watcher
mTxtCardNumber.addTextChangedListener(this);
}
private String formatText(CharSequence text)
{
StringBuilder formatted = new StringBuilder();
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); ++i)
{
if (Character.isDigit(text.charAt(i)))
{
if (count % 4 == 0 && count > 0)
formatted.append(" ");
formatted.append(text.charAt(i));
++count;
}
}
return formatted.toString();
}
});

In case you're still searching, I ran into this problem the last day, and found that using a TextWatcher is the best (still not really good) option. I had to group digits of credit card numbers.
someEditText.addTextChagedListener(new TextWatcher()
{
//According to the developer guide, one shall only edit the EditText's
//content in this function.
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable text)
{
//You somehow need to access the EditText to remove this listener
//for the time of the changes made here. This is one way, but you
//can create a proper TextWatcher class and pass the EditText to
//its constructor, or have the EditText as a member of the class
//this code is running in (in the last case, you simply have to
//delete this line).
EditText someEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.someEditText);
//Remove listener to prevent further call due to the changes we're
//about to make (TextWatcher is recursive, this function will be
//called again for every change you make, and in my experience,
//replace generates multiple ones, so a flag is not enough.
someEditText.removeTextChangedListener(this);
//Replace text with processed the processed string.
//FormatText is a function that takes a CharSequence (yes, you can
//pass the Editable directly), processes it the way you want, then
//returns the result as a String.
text.replace(0, text.length(), FormatText(text));
//Place the listener back
someEditText.addTextChangedListener(this);
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChaged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after)
{
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count)
{
}
});
My formatting function for the credit card numbers looked like this:
String FormatText(CharSequence text)
{
StringBuilder formatted = new StringBuilder();
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); ++i)
{
if (Character.isDigit(text.charAt(i)))
{
//You have to be careful here, only add extra characters before a
//user-typed character, otherwise the user won't be able to delete
//with backspace, since you put the extra character back immediately.
//However, this way, my solution would put a space at the start of
//the string that I don't want, hence the > check.
if (count % 4 == 0 && count > 0)
formatted.append(' ');
formatted.append(text.charAt(i));
++count;
}
}
return formatted.toString();
}
You might have to mind other issues as well, since this solution actually rewrites the EditText's content every time a change is made. For example, you should avoid processing characters you inserted yourself (that is an additional reason for the isDigit check).

use simple function:
public String digit_grouping(String in_digit){
String res = "";
final int input_len = in_digit.length();
for(int i=0 ; i< input_len ; i++)
{
if( (i % 3 == 0) && i > 0 )
res = "," + res;
res = in_digit.charAt(input_len - i - 1) + res;
}
return res;
}