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Helal Khan
Helal Khan

Reputation: 895

Prevent other language except English in EditText

My android app has an EditText field where user can give input. But now i want user can't give input other (i.e Japanese, chain's) than English language.

Upvotes: 36

Views: 15572

Answers (2)

Sahil Mahajan Mj
Sahil Mahajan Mj

Reputation: 11141

you can limit the user to enter only specific characters in the edit text,

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/nameText"
    android:layout_width="177dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:inputType="text"
    android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" />

By this, the user could only enter English words and space, nothing else..

Upvotes: 62

Thilo
Thilo

Reputation: 262824

You can add a TextWatcher that checks what the user is trying to enter (and reject what you don't want).

You cannot really check the language, though, but I guess you just want to limit the character set (to ASCII or maybe Latin-1).

Upvotes: 8

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