Android Money Input with fixed decimal

Question

How do you create an edittext entry that formats input in money format only? When the user enters 5, I want the input to look like "$0.05" and when they then enter 3, the input should now look like "$0.53" and finally they enter 6 and the input should look like "$5.36".

Answer 1

You can use a TextWatcher to do that kind of thing.

Extend TextWatcher: http://d.android.com/reference/android/text/TextWatcher.html

public class MyTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {

    public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) { 

    }

    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) { 

    }

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

    }

}

Then add it to your editText with

myEditText.addTextChangedListener(new MyTextWatcher());