I have a certain requirement to make a EditText
in Android to take month and year(So I gave the hint as mm/yy). When user enters month compulsorily 2 digits, then a /
should be visible, say(11/) followed by year.
The following is the code that I have used on editext
. However when I press the cross button on keypad of mobile it does not delete the /
but deletes the month entered. Can somebody tell me why is this behaviour?
ed.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher(){
@Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
}
@Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,int after) {
}
@Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
if(ed.getText().toString().matches("[0-9]") && ed.getText().toString().length()==2) {
month=ed.getText().toString();
ed.setText(month+"/");
}
}
});
for what you want to achieve try the following i have tested it
add these 2 lines to your edittext in your xml
android:maxLength="7"
android:inputType="number"
add the following in your activity
public int pos=0; //declare this as global variable
ed=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
ed.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
@Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if(ed.getText().length()==2 && pos!=3)
{ ed.setText(ed.getText().toString()+"/");
ed.setSelection(3);
}
}
@Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2,
int arg3) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
pos=ed.getText().length();
}
@Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});
here edit text will take only numbers and length not more than 7, when second number is entered / is appended to it
The pos variable
when you are at position 3 ie after / and press a back key the position is at 2 so it again appends / to avoid this pos records the pos before the text changed so when previous position was 3 before you press back key it will not append / resulting in deleting /
You probably need to move the selection position in the control, in addition to changing the text.
Try below code. it will work for you !!
In xml file :
<EditText
android:id="@+id/mDateEntryField"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:inputType="date"
android:maxLength="5"
android:hint="Exp. MM/YY"/>
In Java file :
mDateEntryField.addTextChangedListener(mDateEntryWatcher);
private TextWatcher mDateEntryWatcher = new TextWatcher() {
@Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
String working = s.toString();
boolean isValid = true;
mDateEntryField.setError(null);
if (working.length() == 2 && before == 0) {
if (Integer.parseInt(working) < 1 || Integer.parseInt(working) > 12) {
isValid = false;
} else {
working += "/";
mDateEntryField.setText(working);
mDateEntryField.setSelection(working.length());
}
} else if (working.length() == 5 && before == 0) {
String enteredYear = working.substring(3);
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yy"); // Just the year, with 2 digits
String formattedDate = df.format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
int currentYear = Integer.parseInt(formattedDate);
if (Integer.parseInt(enteredYear) < currentYear) {
isValid = false;
}
} else if (working.length() != 5) {
isValid = false;
} else
isValid = true;
if (!isValid) {
mDateEntryField.setError("Enter a valid date: MM/YY");
} else {
mDateEntryField.setError(null);
}
}
@Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
}
@Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
};