android-edittext

I just encountered with a problem that I don't know how to solve. It looks silly but I cannot find a way to fix it. I have a form in android with several EditText and when you submit the form it checks those EditText and if they have wrong data I change the EditText to red border (applying a ninepatch image). myEditText.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.edittext_red); The problem is, I want to restore android's default style when the user change the EditText, but I don't know how to do it. if I do: myEditText.setBackgroundResource(0); It will just remove everything and that's not what I want.

is there a way to set the text hint displayed inside of an android edittext with java? I would like for my app to be able to display different things in the edittext at different times, thanks in advance Did you try the setHint ? myTextView.setHint("My conditional hint"); Hope it helps.. If you are using simple Editext without TextInputLayout : EditText etUsername; etUsername = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etUsername); etUsername.setHint("Your Hint"); If you are using Editext within TextInputLayout then you need to change property of TextInputLayout not Edittext : TextInputLayout layoutUser;

I want to allow users only to type certain characters based on the a regex in my android applications. How do I achieve it? Ragunath Jawahar Used a TextWatcher as @Matt Ball suggested. @Override public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) { String text = s.toString(); int length = text.length(); if(length > 0 && !Pattern.matches(PATTERN, text)) { s.delete(length - 1, length); } } Edit Although the TextWatcher works, it would be cleaner to use an InputFilter . Check this example . Try this: If the character to type matches /[a-zA-Z0-9{insert valid characters here}]/ then allow it, otherwise don't.

I have a EditText box where the user can enter input. I need to display the input text in a TextView (which is placed below the Edittext) while the user inputting the text. For Ex: If the user is entering any characters in Edittext box, i need to display the same characters in TextView. In the same way, If the user deletes any character from editetext, i need to remove the same character from TextView. (Ultimtely, I want to change textview's text on change of editext's text). I hope my requirement is clear now. How can i achieve this ? Please guide me Azhar Shaikh Add TextWatcher to your

I'm trying to implement a copy/paste function. How can I get a selection of text from an EditText? EditText et=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.title); blabla onclicklistener on a button: int startSelection=et.getSelectionStart(); int endSelection=et.getSelectionEnd(); Then I'm stuck. Any ideas? Seems like you've already done the hard part by finding what the selected area is. Now you just need to pull that substring out of the full text. Try this: String selectedText = et.getText().substring(startSelection, endSelection); It's just a basic Java String operation. You should use a special function

I am developing an application in which i am creating an Edittext programmatically as : EditText edText = new EditText(this); edText.setId(1); edText .setLayoutParams(new TableLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,0f)); edText .setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER); edText.setHint("dsgsdgsgs"); tableLayout.addView(edText); Here I am setting the id of the Edit text as "1" by the line edText.setId(1); in integer. But what i need is - I want to set the ID in character as for example: edText.setId("edittext_hello"); So that i can access it via that id. How

I have Listview with editext and textview. When i touch on edittext then edittext lost focus! I resolved this problem by setting android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"(AndroidManifest.xml) . Now i touch on edittext than editext get focus but application label and some raw of listview disappear(top part). I want to get focus when user touch on edittext without loss application label and some raw of listview. Code that i have implemented : Below coding get focus when user touch on edittext but application label and some raw of listview disappear when soft keypad pop up.I want to get focus when