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Android Edittext Cursor and Highlight Problem Options

I am trying to implement a textview which has select text/copy and paste functionality. I tried to do this by making an Edittext with the following properties. I currently have the following Edittext: <EditText style="?android:attr/textViewStyle" android:editable="false" ...

Android, CheckBox, XML Layout, array.xml

I want to build: Functions: The TableLayout should be hidden unless user checks "Include Drinks?", [DONE]. Checking "Include Drinks?" also checks Pepsi and sets its quantity to 1. [DONE]. Checking any Drink will set its quantity to 1, unchecking will set to 0. [?] Unchecking "Include Drinks?" unchecks all and sets quantity to 0. [?]...

Switch between a TextView and EditText

Is this possible to interchange a TextView and an EditText. Like display the text when needed, but allow editing when needed. Is there a method (as in NON-XML) way of editing a TextView or non-editing a EditText? ...

Android: EditText listener for cursor position change

I'm looking for a way to detect a cursor position changed in an EditText. I couldn't find anything in the documentation so far. Has anyone solved this already? ...

Android: serving two simultaneous InputConnections

I'm working on a personalized keyboard and I'm wondering if there is a way to add another EditText to a InputConnection. So that I can serve the EditText from the user's application, but also a second EditText, which I have on a special input screen of my keyboard. This screen gets opened when I hit a special button on the keyboard. The ...

measure length of edittext string dynamically in android

Hi, How can i measure length of string entered in the edittext while typing.Because i want to show a warning when the entered text length cross 100 character. Thanks in advance. ...

Android EditText control similar to the address bar in the browser app

How to add a button inside a EditText control in Android, similar to the address bar control in the default browser app in android. ...

Keyboard doesn't accept first character when changing inputs

Hi, I have a TextWatcher set on an EditText that changes the input type after a user types a number followed by a space. If the user types two numbers the input type switches and accepts the next character, but if the user types only one number and presses space the input type still changes but it won't accept the first character the ...

How can I add an image on EditText

I want to dynamically add image in EditText. Is it possible? anybody knows please give sample code for that. ...

Android newline in my EditText

Hi, i got some data like this "line 1 \n line 2" from my distant server by using json with utf8 encoding, and when i try to put the data in my EditText the newline \n doesn't work in spite of unscaping the data by using URLDecoder.decode() because i use databases. Any suggestions all the best . ...

Android: Many Edittexts in ListView

Hi, this is my getView method: public View getView(final int position, View convertView, final ViewGroup parent) { ViewHolder holder; if(convertView == null){ holder = new ViewHolder(); convertView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.propviewlistrow, null); holder.title = (TextView) conver...

Confused about Android key event handling. Any good explanations?

I'm a relative beginner with Android. Does anybody have a sane explanation for how to listen for keys and soft keys in an EditText/TextView? I'd love to see a comprehensive tutorial or set of examples. As I understand it, I can add a KeyListener to my Activity, e.g. onKeyDown(), onKeyUp() but when I try this I can't trigger the events ...

why keyboard not launched from status bar edittext ??

Hi all, I implemented a edittext and a button on a status bar. The problem i face here is, when the edittext is focused and i click it, i couldnt see the Keyboard popup not happening. But if i focus it, cursor blinks, and when i type some characters it is handled by quick search box Activity(intent ).!!! I have implemented onCli...

Seekbars and EditTexts

I am working on an application in which I need the user to set an array of 30 values and to make it user friendly and easy to use I have decided to use a series of SeekBars and EditText widgets. I am using eclipse and have used it to set up the layout. I am looking for an efficient way to set up the application to automaticaly update th...

setText for edittext causing crash in addTextChangedListener

Hi all Im trying to strip all non standard letter characters from an edittext textbox on an android app im making. I am successfully creating a listener, obtaining the value and removing bad chrs via a regex. however, the .setText line below causes the app to crash. Anyone got any ideas how to get around this and dynamically mask c...

Android autotext and autosuggest ... how do these differ?

An Android TextView can have its inputType parameter set to textNoSuggestions, which "indicates that the IME should not show any dictionary-based word suggestions". Presumably, if this is not specified, the default is for suggestions to be shown. It can also have its AutoText parameter set to either true or false. "If set, this specifie...

Decimal separator comma (',') with numberDecimal inputType in EditText

The inputType numberDecimal in EditText uses the dot '.' as decimal separator. In Europe it's common to use a comma ',' instead. Even though my locale is set as german the decimal separator is still the '.' Is there a way to get the comma as decimal separator? ...

How to correctly handle Android EditText input inside a ListView?

In my application I have an activity to add/remove/edit records inside a SortedMap. The activity is implemented as an extension of ListActivity. I have implemented custom ArrayAdapter for the collection items. Every ListView item (which corresponds to an underlying record) consists of TextViews, EditTexts, and a Button to delete the rec...

Problem casting result from SQLite databse into EditText

Hello. I have a database with 3 tables in it. They are "Projects", "Contacts" and "Project Types". I have a UI for creating (adding a record) a new project which adds a record to the "Projects" table. In that UI, I have a button to fetch Contact Names from the "Contacts" table which in turn displays a ListView of all Contacts. When the ...

Proper method to change EditText contents in OnTextChanged event

This code below causes infinate loop problem (as documented). So how do I set the editText contents? I have a text message app where the EditText says "Type to compose",I want to remove the instructions once a user starts to enter a message. TIA et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() { public void afterTextChanged(Edit...