Is there a way to define a min and max value for E

Question

I want to define a min and max value for an EditText.

For example: if any person tries to enter a month value in it, the value must be between 1-12.

I can do it by using TextWatcher but I want to know if there is any other way to do it in layout file or elsewhere.

Edit: I don't want to limit character count. I want to limit the value. For example, if I limit month EditText w characters when I enter 12 it will accept it but if I enter 22 it mustn't accept it while I am entering.

Answer 1

I extended @Pratik Sharmas code to use BigDecimal objects instead of ints so that it can accept larger numbers, and account for any formatting in the EditText that isn't a number (like currency formatting i.e. spaces, commas and periods)

EDIT: note that this implementation has 2 as the minimum significant figures set on the BigDecimal (see the MIN_SIG_FIG constant) as I used it for currency, so there was always 2 leading numbers before the decimal point. Alter the MIN_SIG_FIG constant as necessary for your own implementation.

public class InputFilterMinMax implements InputFilter {
private static final int MIN_SIG_FIG = 2;
private BigDecimal min, max;

public InputFilterMinMax(BigDecimal min, BigDecimal max) {
    this.min = min;
    this.max = max;
}

public InputFilterMinMax(String min, String max) {
    this.min = new BigDecimal(min);
    this.max = new BigDecimal(max);
}

@Override
public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart,
        int dend) {
    try {
        BigDecimal input = formatStringToBigDecimal(dest.toString()
                + source.toString());

        if (isInRange(min, max, input)) {

            return null;
        }
    } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {

    }
    return "";
}

private boolean isInRange(BigDecimal a, BigDecimal b, BigDecimal c) {
    return b.compareTo(a) > 0 ? c.compareTo(a) >= 0 && c.compareTo(b) <= 0
            : c.compareTo(b) >= 0 && c.compareTo(a) <= 0;
}

public static BigDecimal formatStringToBigDecimal(String n) {

    Number number = null;
    try {
        number = getDefaultNumberFormat().parse(n.replaceAll("[^\\d]", ""));

        BigDecimal parsed = new BigDecimal(number.doubleValue()).divide(new BigDecimal(100), 2,
                BigDecimal.ROUND_UNNECESSARY);
        return parsed;
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        return new BigDecimal(0);
    }
}

private static NumberFormat getDefaultNumberFormat() {
    NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getInstance(Locale.getDefault());
    nf.setMinimumFractionDigits(MIN_SIG_FIG);
    return nf;
}