In my Android application I want to add charecters while the user is entering the data. (ex:if user enters 'a' I want to show '(a' in EditText).
I believe this happens automatically. When the EditText gains focus, a connection is made between the edittext and the input manager. Basically anything that is entered via the input manager is then sent to the edittext. So just by clicking on the EditText on the screen and then typing, the letters should appear on their own.
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Hi I have a registration form in my app and I have a phone number EditText box and I want to force the area code like (+233) so it is
always visible as they are typing. Is there a way of doing this?
I have an edittext in my application that gets only numeric keys. It worked fine with a filter for the keys that the user enters and with numeric keyboard shows up when the user touches the edittext box.
when I installed the app on android 7 device, the numeric keyboard shows up and after few seconds, it is hidden and an alphanumeric keyboard replaced it.
I need only numeric one!!
I assume that I need to "listen" to keyboard event and when I got any change in the keyboard type, I should act to change it back.
Anyone to tell me how to do it??!!
In your xml file give below property to your edit text
android:inputType="number"
I was wondering if it's possible to keep an EditText's orange highlight around selected text when the EditText loses focus, until the user changes the selection?
I'm creating a find/replace feature in my app and say if the user selects the first 3 characters in the EditText, then decides that he/she wants to replace the selection with XXXXX and clicks on the other EditText that the user inputs what they want to replace with, the orange highlight dissappears from the original EditText, so the user can forget what he/she is going to replace, therefore I'm wondering how I can keep the orange highlight even on lose focus to prevent the confusion.
Thanks.
I would like to know when the user presses the 'enter/done/next' key on the soft keyboard without the activity knowing which edittext box the user is in. I have seen some code, but it always uses the name of the edittext box that is being edited.
The app has numerous edittext boxes, and calculations are re-run anytime any one of the values in a edittext box is changed.
Then attach the OnEditorActionListener to all of them.
I've got an Android application I'm writing. It has a ListActivity in it that's all set up to load my data using this layout for each item.
My data Adapter binds with no problem and I've set it up so that when an item is selected from the list this method is called.
private void showPasswordBox(View v) {
EditText passwordBox = (EditText)v.findViewById(R.id.hidden_box);
Button passwordSubmit = (Button)v.findViewById(R.id.hidden_box_submit);
passwordSubmit.setText("Login");
passwordSubmit.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
passwordBox.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
passwordBox.setHint(R.string.password);
passwordBox.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD);
passwordBox.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
This has the effect of displaying and EditText and a Button (hidden_box and hidden_box_submit in my layout). Which is just what I wanted.
However a problem occurs when the user taps on the newly visible EditText (hidden_box). The IME pops up and hidden_box immediately loses focus. Consequently anything typed on the IME does not appear in the EditText. Instead it's doing this weird thing where anything typed appears above the keyboard in grey letters and remains at the bottom of the screen when the IME is dismissed. It's like the IME is typing into it's own temporary invisible box.
If the user taps on the EditText after the IME is already showing then the application behaves as it should. Anything typed on the IME appears in the EditText and remains when the IME is dismissed.
It seems to me that when the IME pops up (which it does immediately when the user taps on the EditText, as it should) it completely de-associates with my application and does its thing in IME la-la land unless I direct it to the EditText by tapping on the EditText before typing and dismissing the keyboard. How do I make it behave normally so it types directly into the EditText as soon as it pops up?
passwordBox.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
Hope this will work. Does it?