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 could also use

InternetAddress emailAddr = new InternetAddress(email);
emailAddr.validate();

If the email is not valid it will throw an AddressException.

Unfortunately Android doesn't support jndi-dns, but just to give you an idea of a more powerful email validation, you could use it to validate the email domain. Maybe an Android guru could help and show if there are similar alternatives... An example implementation with "regular" java is available here.

EDIT

I just realized that javax.mail isn't support neither... But this post shows a workaround.