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EditText with number keypad by default, but allowing alphabetic characters
Wondering if it is possible to default to a numeric keyboard on focus for an edittext field but also allow users to input characters? None of the input types seem to support this.
Thanks!
I just tried to add a number text field in Android and it ran in the emulator fine. It defaults to bring up the number pad first, but you can switch to characters just as easy. So try to use a number text field.
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="number" />
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I want to allow only negative numeric and decimal input with the nice numeric keypad that shows all the numbers in a 3x3 keypad. This keypad has a negative button, but it doesn't do anything, and I can't figure out how to activate it. The following is what I have, but it only allows numeric input:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/expense_amount"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
style="#style/FieldNumeric"
android:text="0.00"/>
I've seen several answers already that say to add
android:inputType="numberSigned"
or to use
TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_SIGNED
among other suggestions. The problem with these answers is they lose the nice 3x3 numeric keypad and bring in the alphabetic keyboard.
Any suggestions would be awesome.
Thanks,
Devin
This worked for android 4.2.2 (Jellybean):
android:inputType="numberSigned|numberDecimal"
I am currently experiencing a strange bug with EditText with the android:digits parameter.
Here is the XML of the EditText :
<EditText
android:id="#+id/edittext"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:hint="#string/some_text"
android:imeOptions="actionDone"
android:singleLine="true"
android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\\ "
android:maxLength="140"
android:textSize="#dimen/font_size_small"/>
As you can see, this EditText allows the user to type only alpha-numerics characters.
Now, if I try to use this EditText, the EditText is correctly filtering the chars i'm typing
but ... if I type some chars then directly followed by %, the previously typed chars are copied in the EditText !
Eg: I'm typing on my keyboard hello%%, the result in the EditText will be hellohellohello.
Has any of you already experienced such a bug ? Is it from the Android platform ? Should I report it or has it already been ?
For information, my device is a Nexus 4 with Android 4.3.
Thank you !
The problem is with the Android Keyboard (AOSP). I was trying it using SwiftKey and couldn't recreate it. I changed to the default keyboard and the problem occurs.
The problem occurs because Android Keyboard is trying to learn/suggest words you're typing in. I'm not sure if the bug has been reported, but you can avoid this problem by using android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
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restrict edittext to single line
I have 2 edit texts. My problem is, when I press the enter button in the keyboard, it creates another set of line. Or it creates like a next line in my edit text. I want to remove it and I want it to be in single line. Even if I enter the enter key in the keyboard, still it won't create a next line.
How do you do it?
Try this in your EditText xml
android:singleLine="true"
<EditText
android:id="#+id/edittextView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"/>
Try this with your edit text in layout
I am looking to implement both phone pad and keypad in Android.As, per my requirement when the EditText is selected a default phone pad should be shown. But the user must be able to input alphabets also. Please suggest me a way to implement this.
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editTextref1"
android:layout_width="210dp"
android:layout_height="45dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:ellipsize="start"
android:hint="#string/custom1"
android:imeOptions="actionNext|actionDone"
android:inputType="text"
android:nextFocusDown="#+id/editTextref2"
android:shadowDy="10"
android:textColor="#383838"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:maxLength="15"
android:typeface="serif" />
I would like to make an assumption that it's impossible to do that in a simple and elegant way. The problem is that you input type is InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT and it cannot be changed to InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER because you need to input letters as well.
The problem is that input method checks the type of input and gives you the appropriate keyboard with numbers or alphabet depending on the type of the field input type. If you ask input method to give you number keyboard and you have your EditText in focus, you cannot force the input method to switch to alphabet keyboard in your code. I may be wrong but this is what I think.
The question is whether you can ask any third party input method to give you different keyboard while editing text - I think you cannot do this in your code. Input method will give you numbers or alphabet depending on your EditText but you cannot switch them dynamically because input method is not aware of your design issues. The only way you can do this is to make your own input method that allows you to switch numeric and alphabet keyboards dynamically.
my question is kinda related to this question: Numeric Soft Keyboard on Android
BUT, the question above isnt answered, so here i am.
Theres a EditText that when it gets touched or has focus, i want the Software Keyboard to show up by default as NUMERIC! Of course, you can switch back to ALPHANUMERIC, but i want to force it to show up as NUMERIC.
Thanks guys
Use the android:inputType XML attribute with the number value:
<EditText android:id="#+id/edtInput"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="number"/>