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Cole
Cole

Reputation: 2815

Retrieving data from EditText in Android?

How do I work with whatever the user enters into an EditText, in Java? For just one example, maybe the user enters "I had a great time this weekend!" into an EditText (like a Facebook update or Tweet). I want to do something with "I had a great time this weekend!" so how do I use Java to affect it in the app????

Upvotes: 3

Views: 24661

Answers (4)

Hemant Lakhotiya
Hemant Lakhotiya

Reputation: 1

You can use this code also:

EditText edit = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextID);

String string_object=String.valueOf(edit.getText());

Upvotes: 0

DEEPAK MITTAL
DEEPAK MITTAL

Reputation: 141

use this code for get data from Edit text

EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
String value = editText.getText().toString();

Upvotes: 0

jpalm
jpalm

Reputation: 2347

This should work:

EditText edit = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextID);
Editable editable = edit.getText();
String allTheText = editable.toString();

Replace editTextID with the ID for your EditText.

Upvotes: 1

Thomas Dignan
Thomas Dignan

Reputation: 7102

You can get a value back from an EditText with

EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
String value = editText.getText().toString();

I recommend .trim()'ing this value, since you probably don't want the trailing whitespace users tend to leave.

You should use a Button onClick event to call the above methods, because it's more or less likely to be the UX you are looking for.

Upvotes: 15

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