Is there a way to define a min and max value for EditText in Android?

Question

I want to define a min and max value for an EditText.

For example: if any person tries to enter a month value in it, the value must be between 1-12.

Answer 1

@Pratik Sharma

For support negative numbers, add the following code within the filter method:

package ir.aboy.electronicarsenal;

import android.text.InputFilter;
import android.text.Spanned;

public class InputFilterMinMax implements InputFilter {

  private int min, max;
  int input;

  InputFilterMinMax(int min, int max) {
    this.min = min;
    this.max = max;
  }

  public InputFilterMinMax(String min, String max) {
    this.min = Integer.parseInt(min);
    this.max = Integer.parseInt(max);
  }

  @Override
  public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
    try {

      if ((dest.toString() + source.toString()).equals("-")) {
        source = "-1";
      }

      input = Integer.parseInt(dest.toString() + source.toString());
      if (isInRange(min, max, input))
        return null;

    } catch (NumberFormatException ignored) {
    }
    return "";
  }

  private boolean isInRange(int a, int b, int c) {
    return b > a ? c >= a && c <= b : c >= b && c <= a;
  }

}

Then use this from your Activity :

findViewById(R.id.myEditText).setFilters(new InputFilter[]{ new InputFilterMinMax(1, 12)});

Set your edittext with:

android:inputType="number|numberSigned"