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huey77
huey77

Reputation: 683

Use InputType Number but format edittext live text to phone number format

So the easiest way for the edittext to format your input is to use the phone inputType. The problem is that this gives you a few other symbols other then numbers. And I don't want the user to be able to type in those symbols.

Is there a trick that i could do to get this to work? Other then writing a custom textWatcher that formats the text.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 234

Answers (2)

Simos Lazarou
Simos Lazarou

Reputation: 119

You should use as Athira pointed:

  android:inputType="number"

and if you want decimal numbers then:

android:inputType="numberDecimal"

Upvotes: 0

Deeksha
Deeksha

Reputation: 576

If you want to show only numbers in your keyboard just like this screenshot enter image description here

You have to use numberPassword input type instead of phone input type

  android:inputType="numberPassword"

But when you apply this your entries in editText appear as bullets because inputType is numberPassword, So to solve this problem make a new java class for example:

public class NumberKeyPadTransformationMethod extends PasswordTransformationMethod {
@Override
public CharSequence getTransformation(CharSequence source, View view) {
    return source;
}}

And in your main activity where you fetch the ids of edittext or where you use that edittext you have to simply add one line of code

editText.setTransformationMethod(new NumberKeyPadTransformationMethod());

Your whole problem will solve.

Hope this will help you.

Upvotes: 2

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