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Julia
Julia

Reputation: 1399

Android Editext - Enter negative number numberDecimal|numberSigned

I have an edittext that I want to accept positive and negative numbers.

It works phone on my phone, the keyboard shows the "-" sign, however it doesn't work on some phone whereas the "-" doesn't show up on their keyboard. See the attached images. How to fix it so that it works on all Android phones. I set the edittext to android:inputType="numberDecimal|numberSigned" The first image is on my phone whereas the 2nd image shows the user's phone and he's having problem entering the "-" sign. He uses Android version 5.0.1. enter image description here

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<EditText
android:id="@+id/number"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:inputType="numberDecimal|numberSigned"
/>

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1053

Answers (2)

Vucko
Vucko

Reputation: 7479

Moving my comment to the answer:

I can see the - on both images. Probably on the lower one you need to hold the button for it though.

It worked, holding the button selects the -.

Upvotes: 2

tynn
tynn

Reputation: 39873

On the second keyboard the - can be found as option on the ) key. So you did everything right. Setting android:inputType="numberDecimal|numberSigned" should suffice. But eventually you might find keyboards not handling these types correctly. But then there's nothing you could do about it anyway.

Upvotes: 0

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