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

Follow the instructions in this Answer to format the EditText mask.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/34907607/1013929

And after that, you can catch the original numbers from the masked string with:

String phoneNumbers = maskedString.replaceAll("[^\\d]", "");