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

You can use a Regular Expression with pattern matching to extract number from a string.

    String s="";
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\d+");
    Matcher m = p.matcher("(1111)123-456-789"); //editText.getText().toString()                                      
    while (m.find()) {
    s=s+m.group(0);
    }
    System.out.println("............"+s);    

    Output : ............1111123456789