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Romain Piel
Romain Piel

Reputation: 11177

What's wrong with PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher?

In my app I'm trying to format the phone number typed in an EditText. For that I'm using a PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher.

I'm having issues with this class. Trying to use the constructor PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher(String countryCode) doesn't compile. I can't find it in the documentation but it's definitely in the sdk (see the code source).

What's wrong with that class?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5135

Answers (3)

android developer
android developer

Reputation: 116030

According to the documentation, this CTOR is available from API21 , so you can either copy the code for pre-Lollipop, or use it when you can:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher.html#PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher(java.lang.String)

Upvotes: 0

Manitoba
Manitoba

Reputation: 8702

I highly suggest you to use PhoneNumberUtils to format a phone number. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/PhoneNumberUtils.html

And especially these two methods:

  • formatNumber(String source) Breaks the given number down and formats it according to the rules for the country the number is from.
  • formatNumber(Editable text, int defaultFormattingType) Formats a phone number in-place.

Upvotes: 0

botteaap
botteaap

Reputation: 5790

The PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher(String countryCode) is hidden API, as you can see from the @hide tag in the javadoc. In other words: that particular constructor is not part of the SDK.

Upvotes: 5

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