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Ari
Ari

Reputation: 3127

Formatting fileds using android views

Is there any good simple way to format fields as I want.

I'd like to separate field value from field text. For example, I'd like to group number by 4, so when I set field's value to 123456789 it would show as 1 2345 6789, but when I get value I'll get number without spaces (123456789).

I think, this is the way widgets works on other tools, i.e. .Net VS. I can set there some mapping, formats and so on, so what is shown depends on value and format/mapping.

In android this must be done for passwords fields. It has text as value, but it shows some dots (value is mypassword and field shows **********).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 80

Answers (1)

Robin
Robin

Reputation: 10368

I guess you just want to display the number in nice format, please use the APIs provided by PhoneNumberUtils.

static String    formatNumber(String source)
static void  formatNumber(Editable text, int defaultFormattingType)

You could set the formatted string to the text view for displaying nicely. But the saved content is still the raw content without any format.

Please refer to the SDK document at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/PhoneNumberUtils.html

Upvotes: 1

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