Custom format edit text input android to accept credit card number

Question

how to make edit text accept input in format

4digitnumber-4dignumber-4dignumber-4dignumber   

The code

text.addTextChangedL         


        

Answer 1

It works in all cases, when you insert or remove a character, the format will always be right. Make sure you set

android:inputType="number"

/

myEditText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        private final String space = "-"; // you can change this to whatever you want
        private final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^(\\d{4}"+space+"{1}){0,3}\\d{1,4}$"); // check whether we need to modify or not
        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int st, int be, int count) {
            String currentText = myEditText.getText().toString();
            if (currentText.isEmpty() || pattern.matcher(currentText).matches())
                return; // no need to modify
            String numbersOnly = currentText.trim().replaceAll("[^\\d.]", "");; // remove everything but numbers
            String formatted = "";
            for(int i = 0; i < numbersOnly.length(); i += 4)
                if (i + 4 < numbersOnly.length())
                    formatted += numbersOnly.substring(i,i+4)+space;
                else
                    formatted += numbersOnly.substring(i);
            myEditText.setText(formatted);
            myEditText.setSelection(myEditText.getText().toString().length());
        }
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {}

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