Phone number formatting an EditText in Android

Question

I am making a simple Address Book app (targeting 4.2) that takes name, address, city, state, zip and phone.

I want to format the phone number input as a phone number

Answer 1

Maybe below sample project helps you;

https://github.com/reinaldoarrosi/MaskedEditText

That project contains a view class call MaskedEditText. As first, you should add it in your project.

Then you add below xml part in res/values/attrs.xml file of project;

Then you will be ready to use MaskedEditText view.

As last, you should add MaskedEditText in your xml file what you want like below;

Of course that, you can use it programmatically.

After those steps, adding MaskedEditText will appear like below;

As programmatically, if you want to take it's text value as unmasked, you may use below row;

maskedEditText.getText(true);

To take masked value, you may send false value instead of true value in the getText method.