Limit Decimal Places in Android EditText

Question

I'm trying to write an app that helps you manage your finances. I'm using an EditText Field where the user can specify an amount of money.

I set the inputType to numberDecimal which works fine, except that this allows people to enter numbers such as 123.122 which is not perfect for money.

Is there a way to limit the number of characters after the decimal point to two?

Answer 1

This implementation of InputFilter solves the problem.

import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.text.method.DigitsKeyListener;

public class MoneyValueFilter extends DigitsKeyListener {
    public MoneyValueFilter() {
        super(false, true);
    }

    private int digits = 2;

    public void setDigits(int d) {
        digits = d;
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end,
            Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
        CharSequence out = super.filter(source, start, end, dest, dstart, dend);

        // if changed, replace the source
        if (out != null) {
            source = out;
            start = 0;
            end = out.length();
        }

        int len = end - start;

        // if deleting, source is empty
        // and deleting can't break anything
        if (len == 0) {
            return source;
        }

        int dlen = dest.length();

        // Find the position of the decimal .
        for (int i = 0; i < dstart; i++) {
            if (dest.charAt(i) == '.') {
                // being here means, that a number has
                // been inserted after the dot
                // check if the amount of digits is right
                return (dlen-(i+1) + len > digits) ? 
                    "" :
                    new SpannableStringBuilder(source, start, end);
            }
        }

        for (int i = start; i < end; ++i) {
            if (source.charAt(i) == '.') {
                // being here means, dot has been inserted
                // check if the amount of digits is right
                if ((dlen-dend) + (end-(i + 1)) > digits)
                    return "";
                else
                    break;  // return new SpannableStringBuilder(source, start, end);
            }
        }

        // if the dot is after the inserted part,
        // nothing can break
        return new SpannableStringBuilder(source, start, end);
    }
}

Answer 2

I really liked Pinhassi's answer, but noticed that after the user had entered the specified number digits after the decimal point you could no longer enter text to the left side of the decimal point. The problem was that the solution only tested the previous text that had been entered, not the current text being entered. So here is my solution that inserts the new character into the original text for validation.

package com.test.test;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import android.text.InputFilter;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.util.Log;

public class InputFilterCurrency implements InputFilter {
    Pattern moPattern;

    public InputFilterCurrency(int aiMinorUnits) {
        // http://www.regexplanet.com/advanced/java/index.html
        moPattern=Pattern.compile("[0-9]*+((\\.[0-9]{0,"+ aiMinorUnits + "})?)||(\\.)?");

    } // InputFilterCurrency

    @Override
    public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
        String lsStart  = "";
        String lsInsert = "";
        String lsEnd    = "";
        String lsText   = "";

        Log.d("debug", moPattern.toString());
        Log.d("debug", "source: " + source + ", start: " + start + ", end:" + end + ", dest: " + dest + ", dstart: " + dstart + ", dend: " + dend );

        lsText = dest.toString();

        // If the length is greater then 0, then insert the new character
        // into the original text for validation
        if (lsText.length() > 0) {

            lsStart = lsText.substring(0, dstart);
            Log.d("debug", "lsStart : " + lsStart);
            // Check to see if they have deleted a character
            if (source != "") {
                lsInsert = source.toString();
                Log.d("debug", "lsInsert: " + lsInsert);
            } // if
            lsEnd = lsText.substring(dend);
            Log.d("debug", "lsEnd   : " + lsEnd);
            lsText = lsStart + lsInsert + lsEnd;
            Log.d("debug", "lsText  : " + lsText);

        } // if

        Matcher loMatcher = moPattern.matcher(lsText);
        Log.d("debug", "loMatcher.matches(): " + loMatcher.matches() + ", lsText: " + lsText);
        if(!loMatcher.matches()) {
            return "";
        }
        return null;

    } // CharSequence

} // InputFilterCurrency

And the call to set the editText filter

editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new InputFilterCurrency(2)});

Ouput with two decimal places
05-22 15:25:33.434: D/debug(30524): [0-9]*+((\.[0-9]{0,2})?)||(\.)?
05-22 15:25:33.434: D/debug(30524): source: 5, start: 0, end:1, dest: 123.4, dstart: 5, dend: 5
05-22 15:25:33.434: D/debug(30524): lsStart : 123.4
05-22 15:25:33.434: D/debug(30524): lsInsert: 5
05-22 15:25:33.434: D/debug(30524): lsEnd   : 
05-22 15:25:33.434: D/debug(30524): lsText  : 123.45
05-22 15:25:33.434: D/debug(30524): loMatcher.matches(): true, lsText: 123.45

Ouput inserting a 5 in the middle
05-22 15:26:17.624: D/debug(30524): [0-9]*+((\.[0-9]{0,2})?)||(\.)?
05-22 15:26:17.624: D/debug(30524): source: 5, start: 0, end:1, dest: 123.45, dstart: 2, dend: 2
05-22 15:26:17.624: D/debug(30524): lsStart : 12
05-22 15:26:17.624: D/debug(30524): lsInsert: 5
05-22 15:26:17.624: D/debug(30524): lsEnd   : 3.45
05-22 15:26:17.624: D/debug(30524): lsText  : 1253.45
05-22 15:26:17.624: D/debug(30524): loMatcher.matches(): true, lsText: 1253.45

Answer 3

More elegant way would be using a regular expression ( regex ) as follows:

public class DecimalDigitsInputFilter implements InputFilter {

Pattern mPattern;

public DecimalDigitsInputFilter(int digitsBeforeZero,int digitsAfterZero) {
    mPattern=Pattern.compile("[0-9]{0," + (digitsBeforeZero-1) + "}+((\\.[0-9]{0," + (digitsAfterZero-1) + "})?)||(\\.)?");
}

@Override
public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {

        Matcher matcher=mPattern.matcher(dest);       
        if(!matcher.matches())
            return "";
        return null;
    }

}

To use it do:

editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new DecimalDigitsInputFilter(5,2)});

Answer 4

Here is my solution:

     yourEditText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
            NumberFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("#.##");
            double doubleVal = Double.parseDouble(s.toString());
            yourEditText.setText(formatter.format(doubleVal));
        }

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,int after) {}

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}
    });

If the user enters a number with more than two numbers after the decimal point, it will be automatically corrected.

I hope I have helped!

Answer 5

The simplest way to achieve that is:

et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) {
        String text = arg0.toString();
        if (text.contains(".") && text.substring(text.indexOf(".") + 1).length() > 2) {
            et.setText(text.substring(0, text.length() - 1));
            et.setSelection(et.getText().length());
        }
    }

    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) {

    }

    public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
    }
});

Answer 6

I achieved this with the help of TextWatcher by the following way

final EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.EditText1);
et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2,int arg3) {             

    }
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1,int arg2, int arg3) {             

    }

    public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
        if (arg0.length() > 0) {
            String str = et.getText().toString();
            et.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
                public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
                    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL) {
                        count--;
                        InputFilter[] fArray = new InputFilter[1];
                        fArray[0] = new InputFilter.LengthFilter(100);
                        et.setFilters(fArray);
                        //change the edittext's maximum length to 100. 
                        //If we didn't change this the edittext's maximum length will
                        //be number of digits we previously entered.
                    }
                    return false;
                }
            });
            char t = str.charAt(arg0.length() - 1);
            if (t == '.') {
                count = 0;
            }
            if (count >= 0) {
                if (count == 2) {                        
                    InputFilter[] fArray = new InputFilter[1];
                    fArray[0] = new InputFilter.LengthFilter(arg0.length());
                    et.setFilters(fArray);
                    //prevent the edittext from accessing digits 
                    //by setting maximum length as total number of digits we typed till now.
                }
                count++;
            }
        }
    }
});

This solution will not allow the user to enter more than two digit after decimal point. Also you can enter any number of digits before decimal point. See this blog http://v4all123.blogspot.com/2013/05/set-limit-for-fraction-in-decimal.html to set filter for multiple EditText. I hope this will help. Thank you.