How should I validate an e-mail address?

Question

What\'s a good technique for validating an e-mail address (e.g. from a user input field) in Android? org.apache.commons.validator.routines.EmailValidator doesn\'t seem to be

Answer 1

You can use regular expression to do so. Something like the following.

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(".+@.+\\.[a-z]+");

String email = "xyz@xyzdomain.com";

Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(email);

boolean matchFound = matcher.matches();

Note: Check the regular expression given above, don't use it as it is.