Format credit card in edit text in android

Question

How to make EditText accept input in format:

4digit 4digit 4digit 4digit 

I tried Custom format edit text input android to acc

Answer 1

I'm adding my solution to the list. As far as I am aware, it has no drawback; you can edit in the middle, delete spacing characters, copy and paste into it etc.

To allow editing to take place anywhere in the string, and to maintain cursor position, the Editable is traversed and all whitespace (if any) are taken out one by one. New whitespace is then added at appropriate positions. This will ensure that the cursor moves along with the changes made to the contents.

import java.util.LinkedList;


import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.widget.EditText;


/**
 * Formats the watched EditText to groups of characters, with spaces between them.
 */
public class GroupedInputFormatWatcher implements TextWatcher {

    private static final char SPACE_CHAR = ' ';
    private static final String SPACE_STRING = String.valueOf(SPACE_CHAR);
    private static final int GROUPSIZE = 4;

    /**
     * Breakdown of this regexp:
     * ^             - Start of the string
     * (\\d{4}\\s)*  - A group of four digits, followed by a whitespace, e.g. "1234 ". Zero or more times.
     * \\d{0,4}      - Up to four (optional) digits.
     * (? spaceIndices = new LinkedList ();
        for (int index = originalString.indexOf(SPACE_CHAR); index >= 0; index = originalString.indexOf(SPACE_CHAR, index + 1)) {
            spaceIndices.offerLast(index);
        }

        // Delete the whitespace, starting from the end of the string and working towards the beginning.
        Integer spaceIndex = null;
        while (!spaceIndices.isEmpty()) {
            spaceIndex = spaceIndices.removeLast();
            s.delete(spaceIndex, spaceIndex + 1);
        }

        // Loop through the string again and add whitespaces in the correct positions
        for(int i = 0; ((i + 1) * GROUPSIZE + i) < s.length(); i++) {
            s.insert((i + 1) * GROUPSIZE + i, SPACE_STRING);
        }

        // Finally check that the cursor is not placed before a whitespace.
        // This will happen if, for example, the user deleted the digit '5' in
        // the string: "1234 567".
        // If it is, move it back one step; otherwise it will be impossible to delete
        // further numbers.
        int cursorPos = editText.getSelectionStart();
        if (cursorPos > 0 && s.charAt(cursorPos - 1) == SPACE_CHAR) {
            editText.setSelection(cursorPos - 1);
        }

        isUpdating = false;
    }
}