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Issue while removing automatically added characters to custom PhoneNumberTextWatcher (XXX) XXX-XXXX

My code is working fine when formatting text in (XXX) XXX-XXXX format. But when removing characters, it stops once reached to character -/(). If I again put cursor to any number characters -/() will automatically get removed.
Here is code I used.
public class PhoneNumberTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
private static final String TAG = PhoneNumberTextWatcher.class
.getSimpleName();
private EditText edTxt;
private boolean isDelete;
public PhoneNumberTextWatcher(EditText edTxtPhone) {
this.edTxt = edTxtPhone;
edTxt.setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener() {
#Override
public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL) {
isDelete = true;
}
return false;
}
});
}
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) {
if (isDelete) {
isDelete = false;
return;
}
String val = s.toString();
String a = "";
String b = "";
String c = "";
if (val != null && val.length() > 0) {
val = val.replace("-", "");
val = val.replace("(", "");
val = val.replace(" ", "");
val = val.replace(")", "");
if (val.length() >= 3) {
a = val.substring(0, 3);
} else if (val.length() < 3) {
a = val.substring(0, val.length());
}
if (val.length() >= 6) {
b = val.substring(3, 6);
c = val.substring(6, val.length());
} else if (val.length() > 3 && val.length() < 6) {
b = val.substring(3, val.length());
}
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
if (a != null && a.length() > 0) {
if (a.length() == 3) {
stringBuffer.append("("+a+")"+" ");
}
else{
stringBuffer.append(a);
}
}
if (b != null && b.length() > 0) {
stringBuffer.append(b);
if (b.length() == 3) {
stringBuffer.append("-");
}
}
if (c != null && c.length() > 0) {
stringBuffer.append(c);
}
edTxt.removeTextChangedListener(this);
edTxt.setText(stringBuffer.toString());
edTxt.setSelection(edTxt.getText().toString().length());
edTxt.addTextChangedListener(this);
} else {
edTxt.removeTextChangedListener(this);
edTxt.setText("");
edTxt.addTextChangedListener(this);
}
}
}

No need to listen for Delete key. Just store the previous value of edittext and compare it with new when afterTextChanged is called. Code below works great in my project. I have modified it for (XXX) XXX-XXXX format. You can modify the logic to specify when to delete special characters (, ) and -.
PhoneNumberTextWatcher:
public class PhoneNumberTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
private EditText phoneNumberEditText;
private String phoneNumber = "";
public PhoneNumberTextWatcher(EditText editText) {
phoneNumberEditText = editText;
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
String newValue = s.toString();
if (newValue.length() > phoneNumber.length()) {
phoneNumber = s.toString();
if (phoneNumber.length() == 4) {
if ('(' != phoneNumber.charAt(0)) {
phoneNumberEditText.setText("(" + phoneNumber.substring(0, phoneNumber.length() - 1) + ") " + phoneNumber.substring(phoneNumber.length() - 1));
phoneNumberEditText.setSelection(phoneNumber.length());
}
} else if (phoneNumber.length() == 10) {
phoneNumberEditText.setText(phoneNumber.substring(0, phoneNumber.length() - 1) + "-" + phoneNumber.substring(phoneNumber.length() - 1));
phoneNumberEditText.setSelection(phoneNumber.length());
}
}
else if (newValue.length() < phoneNumber.length()) {
phoneNumber = s.toString();
if (phoneNumber.length() == 10) {
phoneNumberEditText.setText(phoneNumber.substring(0, phoneNumber.length() - 1));
phoneNumberEditText.setSelection(phoneNumber.length());
}
else if (phoneNumber.length() == 6) {
phoneNumberEditText.setText(phoneNumber.substring(1, phoneNumber.length() - 2));
phoneNumberEditText.setSelection(phoneNumber.length());
}
}
}
}

Android EditText InputFilter

How to delete two character at once with the filter?
I am trying to apply a simple filter to an EditText.
It must work as follows:
(want to receive format: 1234 5678....)
===> EDITED: First part works well.
1) when there are 4 digits in EditText and I am entering the 5-th digit -
first must appear a space and then this digit.
2) And I need a reverse for this (during characters deletion) -
the space must be deleted with the 5-th digit.
What is wrong with my code?
editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{new DigitsKeyListener(Boolean.FALSE, Boolean.TRUE) {
#Override
public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
// any chars except backspace
if (!source.equals("")) {
if (dest.length() == 4) {
// here I must add a space and then the source
// ===> EDITED:
return " " + source;
// return super.filter(" " + source, start, end + 1, dest, dstart, dend + 1);
} // backspace entered
} else {
if (dest.length() == 6) {
// here I must delete the 6-th character
// and the space before
return super.filter(source, 0, 0, dest, 5, 6);
}
}
return null;
}
}});

Please use this
public class CustomFormatWatcher implements TextWatcher {
private int size;
public CustomFormatWatcher(int size) {
this.size = size;
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
char hyphen = ' ';
char c = 0;
if (editable.length() > 0) {
c = editable.charAt(editable.length() - 1);
if (c == hyphen) {
editable.delete(editable.length() - 1, editable.length());
}
}
if (editable.length() > 0 && (editable.length() % size) == 0) {
c = editable.charAt(editable.length() - 1);
if (hyphen == c) {
editable.delete(editable.length() - 1, editable.length());
}
}
if (editable.length() > 0 && (editable.length() % size) == 0) {
c = editable.charAt(editable.length() - 1);
// Only if its a digit where there should be a space we insert a hyphen
if (Character.isDigit(c) && TextUtils.split(editable.toString(), String.valueOf(hyphen)).length <= 3) {
editable.insert(editable.length() - 1, String.valueOf(hyphen));
}
}
}
}
and then use
myEditText.addTextChangedListener(new CustomFormatWatcher());

I suggest you to use TextWatcher to format your EditText input, because InputFilter is generally used for input restrictions, to decides what can be typed not to format the text.
You'll get your desired output with this code:
String mTextValue;
Character mLastChar = '\0'; // init with empty character
int mKeyDel;
myEditText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
String eachBlock[] = myEditText.getText().toString().split(" ");
myEditText.setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener() {
#Override
public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL)
mKeyDel = 1;
return false;
}
});
if (mKeyDel == 0) {
if (((myEditText.getText().length() + 1) % 5) == 0) {
myEditText.setText(myEditText.getText() + " ");
myEditText.setSelection(myEditText.getText().length());
}
mTextValue = myEditText.getText().toString();
} else {
mTextValue = myEditText.getText().toString();
if (mLastChar.equals(' ')) {
mTextValue = mTextValue.substring(0, mTextValue.length() - 1);
myEditText.setText(mTextValue);
myEditText.setSelection(mTextValue.length());
}
mKeyDel = 0;
}
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
if (s.length()>0) {// save the last char value
mLastChar = s.charAt(s.length() - 1);
} else {
mLastChar = '\0';
}
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}
});

Limiting a user to enter 1 decimal value in Edit Text

The requirement is to limit user from not entering more than 1 decimal value in a numeric/decimal edit text field. That said, I also need to limit the number entry to 6 Max digits. eg. 999999.9
If a user enters numeric alone - then I should be able to limit the user to 6 digits Max, but should allow "." and decimal number(if entered by the user).
I am not sure, how to do this. Any help and reference will be of great help.

Maybe some implementation similar to this? I'm pretty sure it can be optimized a lot!
EditText et;
.....
// force number input type on edittext
et.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER | InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_DECIMAL);
et.addTextChangedListener(new CustomTextWatcher(et));
where:
class CustomTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
private NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
private EditText et;
private String tmp = "";
private int moveCaretTo;
private static final int INTEGER_CONSTRAINT = 6;
private static final int FRACTION_CONSTRAINT = 1;
private static final int MAX_LENGTH = INTEGER_CONSTRAINT + FRACTION_CONSTRAINT + 1;
public CustomTextWatcher(EditText et) {
this.et = et;
nf.setMaximumIntegerDigits(INTEGER_CONSTRAINT);
nf.setMaximumFractionDigits(FRACTION_CONSTRAINT);
nf.setGroupingUsed(false);
}
public int countOccurrences(String str, char c) {
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
if (str.charAt(i) == c) {
count++;
}
}
return count;
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
et.removeTextChangedListener(this); // remove to prevent stackoverflow
String ss = s.toString();
int len = ss.length();
int dots = countOccurrences(ss, '.');
boolean shouldParse = dots <= 1 && (dots == 0 ? len != (INTEGER_CONSTRAINT + 1) : len < (MAX_LENGTH + 1));
if (shouldParse) {
if (len > 1 && ss.lastIndexOf(".") != len - 1) {
try {
Double d = Double.parseDouble(ss);
if (d != null) {
et.setText(nf.format(d));
}
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
}
}
} else {
et.setText(tmp);
}
et.addTextChangedListener(this); // reset listener
//tried to fix caret positioning after key type:
if (et.getText().toString().length() > 0) {
if (dots == 0 && len >= INTEGER_CONSTRAINT && moveCaretTo > INTEGER_CONSTRAINT) {
moveCaretTo = INTEGER_CONSTRAINT;
} else if (dots > 0 && len >= (MAX_LENGTH) && moveCaretTo > (MAX_LENGTH)) {
moveCaretTo = MAX_LENGTH;
}
try {
et.setSelection(et.getText().toString().length());
// et.setSelection(moveCaretTo); <- almost had it :))
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
moveCaretTo = et.getSelectionEnd();
tmp = s.toString();
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
int length = et.getText().toString().length();
if (length > 0) {
moveCaretTo = start + count - before;
}
}
}
Not 100% but you can use as a base and build on top of it ;)
EDIT: tried to polishing setting the caret position after text changed but it was more difficult than I estimated and reverted to setting the caret at the end after each char input. I left the code I started on for the caret maybe you can improve it?

There is a small mistake in above answer
I edited that one use the below code.
import java.math.RoundingMode;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.widget.EditText;
public class DecimalTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
private NumberFormat numberFormat = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
private EditText editText;
private String temp = "";
private int moveCaretTo;
private int integerConstraint;
private int fractionConstraint;
private int maxLength;
/**
* Add a text watcher to Edit text for decimal formats
*
* #param editText
* EditText to add DecimalTextWatcher
* #param before
* digits before decimal point
* #param after
* digits after decimal point
*/
public DecimalTextWatcher(EditText editText, int before, int after) {
this.editText = editText;
this.integerConstraint = before;
this.fractionConstraint = after;
this.maxLength = before + after + 1;
numberFormat.setMaximumIntegerDigits(integerConstraint);
numberFormat.setMaximumFractionDigits(fractionConstraint);
numberFormat.setRoundingMode(RoundingMode.DOWN);
numberFormat.setGroupingUsed(false);
}
private int countOccurrences(String str, char c) {
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
if (str.charAt(i) == c) {
count++;
}
}
return count;
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
// remove to prevent StackOverFlowException
editText.removeTextChangedListener(this);
String ss = s.toString();
int len = ss.length();
int dots = countOccurrences(ss, '.');
boolean shouldParse = dots <= 1 && (dots == 0 ? len != (integerConstraint + 1) : len < (maxLength + 1));
boolean x = false;
if (dots == 1) {
int indexOf = ss.indexOf('.');
try {
if (ss.charAt(indexOf + 1) == '0') {
shouldParse = false;
x = true;
if (ss.substring(indexOf).length() > 2) {
shouldParse = true;
x = false;
}
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
}
}
if (shouldParse) {
if (len > 1 && ss.lastIndexOf(".") != len - 1) {
try {
Double d = Double.parseDouble(ss);
if (d != null) {
editText.setText(numberFormat.format(d));
}
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
}
}
} else {
if (x) {
editText.setText(ss);
} else {
editText.setText(temp);
}
}
editText.addTextChangedListener(this); // reset listener
// tried to fix caret positioning after key type:
if (editText.getText().toString().length() > 0) {
if (dots == 0 && len >= integerConstraint && moveCaretTo > integerConstraint) {
moveCaretTo = integerConstraint;
} else if (dots > 0 && len >= (maxLength) && moveCaretTo > (maxLength)) {
moveCaretTo = maxLength;
}
try {
editText.setSelection(editText.getText().toString().length());
// et.setSelection(moveCaretTo); <- almost had it :))
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
moveCaretTo = editText.getSelectionEnd();
temp = s.toString();
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
int length = editText.getText().toString().length();
if (length > 0) {
moveCaretTo = start + count - before;
}
}
}
use it as below..
itemCostEditText.addTextChangedListener(new DecimalTextWatcher(itemCostEditText, 6, 2));

You can make use of TextWatcher's afterTextChanged/onTextChanged methods to get notified for text changes and DecimalFormat to format input text
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/DecimalFormat.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/TextWatcher.html

Automatically add dash in phone number in Android

Instead of 5118710, it should be 511-8710. I'd like to add a dash after the user the user inputted 3 digits already in the EditText. The maximum length of the EditText is 7 digits only.
After I figured out the above problem, I've got stuck in coding again. When I already inputted 3 digits, it appends dash (that's what I'd like to happen) but my problem here is that the next 3 digits also appends dash (Like this: 511-871-)... Please help me with this. thanks!
txt_HomeNo.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
boolean flag = true;
String eachBlock[] = txt_HomeNo.getText().toString().split("-");
for (int i = 0; i < eachBlock.length; i++) {
if (eachBlock[i].length() > 3) {
flag = false;
}
}
if (flag) {
txt_HomeNo.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
#Override
public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL)
keyDel = 1;
return false;
}
});
if (keyDel == 0) {
if (((txt_HomeNo.getText().length() + 1) % 4) == 0) {
if (txt_HomeNo.getText().toString().split("-").length <= 3) {
txt_HomeNo.setText(txt_HomeNo.getText() + "-");
txt_HomeNo.setSelection(txt_HomeNo.getText().length());
}
}
a = txt_HomeNo.getText().toString();
} else {
a = txt_HomeNo.getText().toString();
keyDel = 0;
}
} else {
txt_HomeNo.setText(a);
}
}

The most straightforward solution is to use PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher which will format the number according to the system locale.
XML:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/phone_number"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="#string/enter_phone_number"
android:inputType="phone" />
Add addTextChangedListener() in your class:
EditText phoneNumber = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.phone_number);
phoneNumber.addTextChangedListener(new PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher());

Implement the following modified addTextChangedListener for txt_HomeNo. The code below is checking if the length of the text entered is 3 and if it is then add the - to it. Not a very robust solution but it works!
txt_HomeNo.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
txt_HomeNo.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
#Override
public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL)
keyDel = 1;
return false;
}
});
if (keyDel == 0) {
int len = txt_HomeNo.getText().length();
if(len == 3) {
txt_HomeNo.setText(txt_HomeNo.getText() + "-");
txt_HomeNo.setSelection(txt_HomeNo.getText().length());
}
} else {
keyDel = 0;
}
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});

I have a few small changes to the solution of neo108 so it can work with both soft keyboard and hard keyboard, in my code for example the edittext will follow the rule to automatically add " " at position 5 and 9.
txtPhone.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
int keyDel;
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
txtPhone.setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener() {
#Override
public boolean onKey(View view, int keyCode, KeyEvent keyEvent) {
if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL) {
keyDel = 1;
}
return false;
}
});
String currentString = txtPhone.getText().toString();
int currentLength = txtPhone.getText().length();
if (currentLength == 5 || currentLength == 9) {
keyDel = 1;
}
if (keyDel == 0) {
if (currentLength == 4 || currentLength == 8) {
txtPhone.setText(txtPhone.getText() + " ");
txtPhone.setSelection(txtPhone.getText().length());
}
} else {
if (currentLength != 5 && currentLength != 9) {
keyDel = 0;
} else if ((currentLength == 5 || currentLength == 9)
&& !" ".equals(currentString.substring(currentLength - 1, currentLength))) {
txtPhone.setText(currentString.substring(0, currentLength - 1) + " "
+ currentString.substring(currentLength - 1, currentLength));
txtPhone.setSelection(txtPhone.getText().length());
}
}
}

I implemented a custom TextWatcher; this handles 10 and 11 digit phone numbers (i.e. 1-555-867-5309 and 555-867-5309). Allows adds, deletions, inserts, mass removal while maintaining proper cursor position.
public class CustomPhoneTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
private final EditText editText;
private String previousString;
public CustomPhoneTextWatcher(EditText editText) {
this.editText = editText;
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
// if the previous editable ends with a dash and new is shorter than previous
// additionally remove preceding character
if (previousString != null && previousString.endsWith("-") && editable.toString().length() < previousString.length()) {
previousString = editable.toString();
String removedCharacterPriorToDash = editable.toString().substring(0, editable.length() - 1);
editText.setText(removedCharacterPriorToDash);
int position = editText.length();
Editable etext = editText.getText();
Selection.setSelection(etext, position);
} else {
previousString = editable.toString();
String numericString = StringUtils.removeNonnumeric(editable.toString());
int stringLength = numericString.length();
boolean startsWithOne = numericString.startsWith("1");
numericString = numericString.substring(0, Math.min(stringLength, 10 + (startsWithOne ? 1 : 0)));
int lastHyphenIndex = 6 + (startsWithOne ? 1 : 0);
int secondToLastHyphenIndex = 3 + (startsWithOne ? 1 : 0);
if (stringLength >= lastHyphenIndex) {
numericString = numericString.substring(0, lastHyphenIndex) + "-" + numericString.substring(lastHyphenIndex, numericString.length());
}
if (stringLength >= secondToLastHyphenIndex) {
numericString = numericString.substring(0, secondToLastHyphenIndex) + "-" + numericString.substring(secondToLastHyphenIndex, numericString.length());
}
if (numericString.startsWith("1")) {
numericString = numericString.substring(0, 1) + "-" + numericString.substring(1, numericString.length());
}
if (!numericString.equals(editable.toString())) {
editText.setText(numericString);
int position = editText.length();
Editable etext = editText.getText();
Selection.setSelection(etext, position);
}
}
}
}
StringUtils.removeNonnumeric(editable.toString()) is a call to this method:
public static String removeNonnumeric(String text) {
return text.replaceAll("[^\\d]", "");
}

Thanks for the all above answer.
The editText.setOnKeyListener() will never invoke when your device has only soft keyboard.
If we strictly follow the rule to add "-", then this code not always show desire result.
editText.addTextChangedListener(new PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher());
but above code is best solution for formatting phone no.
Apart from above this solution, I write a code which work on all types of condition::
phoneNumber.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
if (len > phoneNumber.getText().length() ){
len--;
return;
}
len = phoneNumber.getText().length();
if (len == 4 || len== 8) {
String number = phoneNumber.getText().toString();
String dash = number.charAt(number.length() - 1) == '-' ? "" : "-";
number = number.substring(0, (len - 1)) + dash + number.substring((len - 1), number.length());
phoneNumber.setText(number);
phoneNumber.setSelection(number.length());
}
}
});
this line of code required to add "-" on 3rd & 6th position of number.
if (len == 4 || len== 8)

Do it yourself by using OnEditTextChangedListener and insert dash by counting number of chars, Counting Chars in EditText Changed Listener

import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.Selection;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.EditText;
/**
* Auto-formats a number using -.
* Ex. 303-333-3333
* Ex. 1-303-333-3333
* Doesn't allow deletion of just -
*/
public class PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
private static final String TAG = "PhoneNumberTextWatcher";
private final EditText editText;
private String previousNumber;
/**
* Indicates the change was caused by ourselves.
*/
private boolean mSelfChange = false;
public PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher(EditText editText) {
this.editText = editText;
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
// if the previous editable ends with a dash and new is shorter than previous
// additionally remove preceding character
Log.i(TAG, "Previous String: " + previousNumber);
//if self change ignore
if (mSelfChange) {
Log.i(TAG, "Ignoring self change");
mSelfChange = false;
return;
}
String phoneNumber = removeNonnumeric(editable.toString());
int stringLength = phoneNumber.length();
//empty case
if(stringLength == 0) {
mSelfChange = true;
editText.setText("");
return;
}
boolean startsWithOne = phoneNumber.charAt(0) == '1';
int maxLength = 10 + (startsWithOne ? 1 : 0);
//too large
if(stringLength > maxLength) {
Log.i(TAG, "String length is greater than max allowed, using previous string: " + previousNumber);
mSelfChange = true;
editText.setText(previousNumber);
Editable etext = editText.getText();
Selection.setSelection(etext, previousNumber.length());
return;
}
phoneNumber = formatPhoneNumber(phoneNumber);
if(previousNumber != null && phoneNumber.length() == previousNumber.length()) {
//user deleting last character, and it is a -
if(phoneNumber.endsWith("-")) {
phoneNumber = phoneNumber.substring(0, phoneNumber.length()-2);
}
}
mSelfChange = true;
previousNumber = phoneNumber;
editText.setText(phoneNumber);
Editable etext = editText.getText();
Selection.setSelection(etext, phoneNumber.length());
}
private String formatPhoneNumber(String phoneNumber) {
int stringLength = phoneNumber.length();
//check if starts with 1, if it does, dash index is increased by 1
boolean startsWithOne = phoneNumber.charAt(0) == '1';
//if the length of the string is 6, add another dash
int lastHyphenIndex = 6 + (startsWithOne ? 1 : 0);
if (stringLength >= lastHyphenIndex) {
phoneNumber = phoneNumber.substring(0, lastHyphenIndex) + "-" + phoneNumber.substring(lastHyphenIndex, phoneNumber.length());
}
//if the length of the string is 3, add a dash
int secondToLastHyphenIndex = 3 + (startsWithOne ? 1 : 0);
if (stringLength >= secondToLastHyphenIndex) {
phoneNumber = phoneNumber.substring(0, secondToLastHyphenIndex) + "-" + phoneNumber.substring(secondToLastHyphenIndex, phoneNumber.length());
}
//If the number starts with 1, add a dash after 1
if (phoneNumber.startsWith("1")) {
phoneNumber = phoneNumber.substring(0, 1) + "-" + phoneNumber.substring(1, phoneNumber.length());
}
return phoneNumber;
}
private static String removeNonnumeric(String text) {
return text.replaceAll("[^\\d]", "");
}
}

Phone number formatting an EditText in Android

I am making a simple Address Book app (targeting 4.2) that takes name, address, city, state, zip and phone.
I want to format the phone number input as a phone number (XXX) XXX-XXXX, but I need to pull the value out as a string so I can store it in my database when I save. How can i do this??
I have the EditText set for "phone number" input but that obviously doesn't do too much.

Simply use the PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher, just call:
editText.addTextChangedListener(new PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher());
Addition
To be clear, PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher's backbone is the PhoneNumberUtils class. The difference is the TextWatcher maintains the EditText while you must call PhoneNumberUtils.formatNumber() every time you change its contents.

There is a library called PhoneNumberUtils that can help you to cope with phone number conversions and comparisons. For instance, use ...
EditText text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextId);
PhoneNumberUtils.formatNumber(text.getText().toString())
... to format your number in a standard format.
PhoneNumberUtils.compare(String a, String b);
... helps with fuzzy comparisons. There are lots more. Check out http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/PhoneNumberUtils.html for more.
p.s. setting the the EditText to phone is already a good choice; eventually it might be helpful to add digits e.g. in your layout it looks as ...
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editTextId"
android:inputType="phone"
android:digits="0123456789+"
/>

Simply Use This :
In Java Code :
editText.addTextChangedListener(new PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher());
In XML Code :
<EditText
android:id="#+id/etPhoneNumber"
android:inputType="phone"/>
This code work for me. It'll auto format when text changed in edit text.

I've recently done a similar formatting like 1 (XXX) XXX-XXXX for Android EditText. Please find the code below. Just use the TextWatcher sub-class as the text changed listener :
....
UsPhoneNumberFormatter addLineNumberFormatter = new UsPhoneNumberFormatter(
new WeakReference<EditText>(mYourEditText));
mYourEditText.addTextChangedListener(addLineNumberFormatter);
...
private class UsPhoneNumberFormatter implements TextWatcher {
//This TextWatcher sub-class formats entered numbers as 1 (123) 456-7890
private boolean mFormatting; // this is a flag which prevents the
// stack(onTextChanged)
private boolean clearFlag;
private int mLastStartLocation;
private String mLastBeforeText;
private WeakReference<EditText> mWeakEditText;
public UsPhoneNumberFormatter(WeakReference<EditText> weakEditText) {
this.mWeakEditText = weakEditText;
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
int after) {
if (after == 0 && s.toString().equals("1 ")) {
clearFlag = true;
}
mLastStartLocation = start;
mLastBeforeText = s.toString();
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
int count) {
// TODO: Do nothing
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
// Make sure to ignore calls to afterTextChanged caused by the work
// done below
if (!mFormatting) {
mFormatting = true;
int curPos = mLastStartLocation;
String beforeValue = mLastBeforeText;
String currentValue = s.toString();
String formattedValue = formatUsNumber(s);
if (currentValue.length() > beforeValue.length()) {
int setCusorPos = formattedValue.length()
- (beforeValue.length() - curPos);
mWeakEditText.get().setSelection(setCusorPos < 0 ? 0 : setCusorPos);
} else {
int setCusorPos = formattedValue.length()
- (currentValue.length() - curPos);
if(setCusorPos > 0 && !Character.isDigit(formattedValue.charAt(setCusorPos -1))){
setCusorPos--;
}
mWeakEditText.get().setSelection(setCusorPos < 0 ? 0 : setCusorPos);
}
mFormatting = false;
}
}
private String formatUsNumber(Editable text) {
StringBuilder formattedString = new StringBuilder();
// Remove everything except digits
int p = 0;
while (p < text.length()) {
char ch = text.charAt(p);
if (!Character.isDigit(ch)) {
text.delete(p, p + 1);
} else {
p++;
}
}
// Now only digits are remaining
String allDigitString = text.toString();
int totalDigitCount = allDigitString.length();
if (totalDigitCount == 0
|| (totalDigitCount > 10 && !allDigitString.startsWith("1"))
|| totalDigitCount > 11) {
// May be the total length of input length is greater than the
// expected value so we'll remove all formatting
text.clear();
text.append(allDigitString);
return allDigitString;
}
int alreadyPlacedDigitCount = 0;
// Only '1' is remaining and user pressed backspace and so we clear
// the edit text.
if (allDigitString.equals("1") && clearFlag) {
text.clear();
clearFlag = false;
return "";
}
if (allDigitString.startsWith("1")) {
formattedString.append("1 ");
alreadyPlacedDigitCount++;
}
// The first 3 numbers beyond '1' must be enclosed in brackets "()"
if (totalDigitCount - alreadyPlacedDigitCount > 3) {
formattedString.append("("
+ allDigitString.substring(alreadyPlacedDigitCount,
alreadyPlacedDigitCount + 3) + ") ");
alreadyPlacedDigitCount += 3;
}
// There must be a '-' inserted after the next 3 numbers
if (totalDigitCount - alreadyPlacedDigitCount > 3) {
formattedString.append(allDigitString.substring(
alreadyPlacedDigitCount, alreadyPlacedDigitCount + 3)
+ "-");
alreadyPlacedDigitCount += 3;
}
// All the required formatting is done so we'll just copy the
// remaining digits.
if (totalDigitCount > alreadyPlacedDigitCount) {
formattedString.append(allDigitString
.substring(alreadyPlacedDigitCount));
}
text.clear();
text.append(formattedString.toString());
return formattedString.toString();
}
}

Maybe below sample project helps you;
https://github.com/reinaldoarrosi/MaskedEditText
That project contains a view class call MaskedEditText. As first, you should add it in your project.
Then you add below xml part in res/values/attrs.xml file of project;
<resources>
<declare-styleable name="MaskedEditText">
<attr name="mask" format="string" />
<attr name="placeholder" format="string" />
</declare-styleable>
</resources>
Then you will be ready to use MaskedEditText view.
As last, you should add MaskedEditText in your xml file what you want like below;
<packagename.currentfolder.MaskedEditText
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/maskedEditText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="10"
android:text="5"
app:mask="(999) 999-9999"
app:placeholder="_" >
Of course that, you can use it programmatically.
After those steps, adding MaskedEditText will appear like below;
As programmatically, if you want to take it's text value as unmasked, you may use below row;
maskedEditText.getText(true);
To take masked value, you may send false value instead of true value in the getText method.

You need to create a class:
public class PhoneTextFormatter implements TextWatcher {
private final String TAG = this.getClass().getSimpleName();
private EditText mEditText;
private String mPattern;
public PhoneTextFormatter(EditText editText, String pattern) {
mEditText = editText;
mPattern = pattern;
//set max length of string
int maxLength = pattern.length();
mEditText.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{new InputFilter.LengthFilter(maxLength)});
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
StringBuilder phone = new StringBuilder(s);
Log.d(TAG, "join");
if (count > 0 && !isValid(phone.toString())) {
for (int i = 0; i < phone.length(); i++) {
Log.d(TAG, String.format("%s", phone));
char c = mPattern.charAt(i);
if ((c != '#') && (c != phone.charAt(i))) {
phone.insert(i, c);
}
}
mEditText.setText(phone);
mEditText.setSelection(mEditText.getText().length());
}
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
}
private boolean isValid(String phone)
{
for (int i = 0; i < phone.length(); i++) {
char c = mPattern.charAt(i);
if (c == '#') continue;
if (c != phone.charAt(i)) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}
Use this as follows:
phone = view.findViewById(R.id.phone);
phone.addTextChangedListener(new PhoneTextFormatter(phone, "+7 (###) ###-####"));

If you're only interested in international numbers and you'd like to be able to show the flag of the country that matches the country code in the input, I wrote a small library for that:
https://github.com/tfcporciuncula/phonemoji
Here's how it looks:

Follow the instructions in this Answer to format the EditText mask.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/34907607/1013929
And after that, you can catch the original numbers from the masked string with:
String phoneNumbers = maskedString.replaceAll("[^\\d]", "");

//(123) 456 7890 formate set
private int textlength = 0;
public class MyPhoneTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
String text = etMobile.getText().toString();
textlength = etMobile.getText().length();
if (text.endsWith(" "))
return;
if (textlength == 1) {
if (!text.contains("(")) {
etMobile.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, "(").toString());
etMobile.setSelection(etMobile.getText().length());
}
} else if (textlength == 5) {
if (!text.contains(")")) {
etMobile.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, ")").toString());
etMobile.setSelection(etMobile.getText().length());
}
} else if (textlength == 6 || textlength == 10) {
etMobile.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, " ").toString());
etMobile.setSelection(etMobile.getText().length());
}
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
}
}

More like clean:
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
String text = etyEditText.getText();
int textlength = etyEditText.getText().length();
if (text.endsWith("(") ||text.endsWith(")")|| text.endsWith(" ") || text.endsWith("-") )
return;
switch (textlength){
case 1:
etyEditText.setEditText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, "(").toString());
etyEditText.setSelection(etyEditText.getText().length());
break;
case 5:
etyEditText.setEditText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, ")").toString());
etyEditText.setSelection(etyEditText.getText().length());
break;
case 6:
etyEditText.setEditText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, " ").toString());
etyEditText.setSelection(etyEditText.getText().length());
break;
case 10:
etyEditText.setEditText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, "-").toString());
etyEditText.setSelection(etyEditText.getText().length());
break;
}
}

You can use spawns to format phone numbers in Android. This solution is better than the others because it does not change input text. Formatting remains purely visual.
implementation 'com.googlecode.libphonenumber:libphonenumber:7.0.4'
Formatter class:
open class PhoneNumberFormatter : TransformationMethod {
private val mFormatter: AsYouTypeFormatter = PhoneNumberUtil.getInstance().getAsYouTypeFormatter(Locale.getDefault().country)
override fun getTransformation(source: CharSequence, view: View): CharSequence {
val formatted = format(source)
if (source is Spannable) {
setSpans(source, formatted)
return source
}
return formatted
}
override fun onFocusChanged(view: View?, sourceText: CharSequence?, focused: Boolean, direction: Int, previouslyFocusedRect: Rect?) = Unit
private fun setSpans(spannable: Spannable, formatted: CharSequence): CharSequence {
spannable.clearSpawns()
var charterIndex = 0
var formattedIndex = 0
var spawn = ""
val spawns: List<String> = spannable
.map {
spawn = ""
charterIndex = formatted.indexOf(it, formattedIndex)
if (charterIndex != -1){
spawn = formatted.substring(formattedIndex, charterIndex-1)
formattedIndex = charterIndex+1
}
spawn
}
spawns.forEachIndexed { index, sequence ->
spannable.setSpan(CharterSpan(sequence), index, index + 1, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE)
}
return formatted
}
private fun Spannable.clearSpawns() =
this
.getSpans(0, this.length, CharterSpan::class.java)
.forEach { this.removeSpan(it) }
private fun format(spannable: CharSequence): String {
mFormatter.clear()
var formated = ""
for (i in 0 until spannable.length) {
formated = mFormatter.inputDigit(spannable[i])
}
return formated
}
private inner class CharterSpan(private val charters: String) : ReplacementSpan() {
var space = 0
override fun getSize(paint: Paint, text: CharSequence, start: Int, end: Int, fm: Paint.FontMetricsInt?): Int {
space = Math.round(paint.measureText(charters, 0, charters.length))
return Math.round(paint.measureText(text, start, end)) + space
}
override fun draw(canvas: Canvas, text: CharSequence, start: Int, end: Int, x: Float, top: Int, y: Int, bottom: Int, paint: Paint) {
space = Math.round(paint.measureText(charters, 0, charters.length))
canvas.drawText(text, start, end, x + space, y.toFloat(), paint)
canvas.drawText(charters, x, y.toFloat(), paint)
}
}
}
Uasge:
editText.transformationMethod = formatter

You can use a Regular Expression with pattern matching to extract number from a string.
String s="";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\d+");
Matcher m = p.matcher("(1111)123-456-789"); //editText.getText().toString()
while (m.find()) {
s=s+m.group(0);
}
System.out.println("............"+s);
Output : ............1111123456789

Don't worry. I have make a most of better solution for you. You can see this simple app link below.
private EditText mPasswordField;
public int textLength = 0;
#Override
protected void onCreate(#Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
mPasswordField = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.password_field);
mPasswordField.addTextChangedListener(this);
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
String text = mPasswordField.getText().toString();
textLength = mPasswordField.getText().length();
if (text.endsWith("-") || text.endsWith(" ") || text.endsWith(" "))
return;
if (textLength == 1) {
if (!text.contains("(")) {
mPasswordField.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, "(").toString());
mPasswordField.setSelection(mPasswordField.getText().length());
}
} else if (textLength == 5) {
if (!text.contains(")")) {
mPasswordField.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, ")").toString());
mPasswordField.setSelection(mPasswordField.getText().length());
}
} else if (textLength == 6) {
mPasswordField.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, " ").toString());
mPasswordField.setSelection(mPasswordField.getText().length());
} else if (textLength == 10) {
if (!text.contains("-")) {
mPasswordField.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, "-").toString());
mPasswordField.setSelection(mPasswordField.getText().length());
}
} else if (textLength == 15) {
if (text.contains("-")) {
mPasswordField.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, "-").toString());
mPasswordField.setSelection(mPasswordField.getText().length());
}
}else if (textLength == 18) {
if (text.contains("-")) {
mPasswordField.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, "-").toString());
mPasswordField.setSelection(mPasswordField.getText().length());
}
} else if (textLength == 20) {
Intent i = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Activity2.class);
startActivity(i);
}
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
}
Not: Don't forget "implement TextWatcher" with your activity class.
Link :https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-yo9VvU7jyBMjJpT29xc2k5bnc
Hope you are feeling cool for this solution.

You can accept only numbers and phone number type using java code
EditText number1 = (EditText) layout.findViewById(R.id.edittext);
number1.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER|InputType.TYPE_CLASS_PHONE);
number1.setKeyListener(DigitsKeyListener.getInstance("0123456789”));
number1.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new InputFilter.LengthFilter(14)}); // 14 is max digits
This code will avoid lot of validations after reading input

This code is work for me for (216) 555-5555
etphonenumber.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher()
{
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s)
{
String text = etphonenumber.getText().toString();
int textLength = etphonenumber.getText().length();
if (text.endsWith("-") || text.endsWith(" ") || text.endsWith(" "))
return;
if (textLength == 1) {
if (!text.contains("("))
{
etphonenumber.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, "(").toString());
etphonenumber.setSelection(etphonenumber.getText().length());
}
}
else if (textLength == 5)
{
if (!text.contains(")"))
{
etphonenumber.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, ")").toString());
etphonenumber.setSelection(etphonenumber.getText().length());
}
}
else if (textLength == 6)
{
etphonenumber.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, " ").toString());
etphonenumber.setSelection(etphonenumber.getText().length());
}
else if (textLength == 10)
{
if (!text.contains("-"))
{
etphonenumber.setText(new StringBuilder(text).insert(text.length() - 1, "-").toString());
etphonenumber.setSelection(etphonenumber.getText().length());
}
}
}
});