Automatically add dash in phone number in Android

Question

Instead of 5118710, it should be 511-8710. I\'d like to add a dash after the user the user inputted 3 digits already in the EditText. The maximum length of

Answer 1

Implement the following modified addTextChangedListener for txt_HomeNo. The code below is checking if the length of the text entered is 3 and if it is then add the - to it. Not a very robust solution but it works!

txt_HomeNo.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

        txt_HomeNo.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {

                if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL)
                    keyDel = 1;
                return false;
            }
        });

        if (keyDel == 0) {
            int len = txt_HomeNo.getText().length();
            if(len == 3) {
                txt_HomeNo.setText(txt_HomeNo.getText() + "-");
                txt_HomeNo.setSelection(txt_HomeNo.getText().length());
            }
        } else {
            keyDel = 0;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }
});