edittext

Test if Multiple EditTexts are empty

Say I have multiple EditTexts in an application. When I click a Button, I want to test what EditTexts are empty and what EditTexts have content. I also want the id of the EditText whose content is NOT empty. How would I do that? Could someone write the code for the Button click handler. My six EditText's ids are FirstString, SecondString...

Supress the Soft Keboard when an activity loads... yet again

this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN); Same problem that I've read on other posts. I don't want the soft keyboard to pop up when the Activity loads. The above code snippet works, however my View no longer scrolls up so that the User can still see the EditText. It scrolls without t...

Android : EditText with custom keyboard

Hello I created my own custom keyboard following the the example in the sdk. Now I would like to use this custom keyboard by default on my EditText in my app (actualy I have to long press the edittext and then choose my custom keyboard). How can I do that ? (seems to be related to the inputType property but I can't find out how to se...

EditText selects by default?

Whenever I have an EditText field in my android application, it is highlighted with the blinking cursor for input as soon as the activity is started (though the keyboard doesn't pop up). How can I disable this? ...

Enable Scrolling within EditText that is in a ScrollView

Our app (WordPress for Android) uses a scrollview for the new post view, where a user enters in their new blog post. There's quite a few fields on this view, including a large EditText for the post content field. It appears that when an EditText is in a ScrollView, the ScrollView takes over the scrolling action, so the user can't scr...

Why is my Android app force closing when I try to check if an EditText has a double

Scanner scanner = new Scanner(lapsPerMile_st); if (!scanner.hasNextDouble()) { Context context = getApplicationContext(); String msg = "Please Enter Digits and Decmials Only"; int duration = Toast.LENGTH_LONG; Toast.makeText(context, msg, ...

Masked Input Using EditText Widget in Android

Is there a way I can specify an input mask to the EditText control in Android? I want be able to specify something like ### - ## - #### for a Social Security Number. This will cause any invalid input to be rejected automatically (example, I type alphabetical characters instead of numeric digits). I realize that I can add an OnKeyListen...

Is this the correct way to insert text at the cursor in Android?

myInput.setText(myInput.getText().replace(myInput.getSelectionStart(), myInput.getSelectionEnd(), myText)); myInput.setSelection(myInput.getSelectionStart() + myText.length(), myInput.getSelectionEnd() + myText.length()) I ask because I think this code is much longer than it needs to be - Is there something shorter like myInput.insertT...

Combining EditText and Button?

Hi there! In some apps I see an EditText widget combined with a Button on the right side (e.g. the search field in the twitter app). How can I create a widget like that? Regards, Marco ...

Custom list: EditText consumes list's OnItemClickListener

Hi everyone, I've been implementing a number of custom-lists, all worked fine. Now I'm trying to add an EditText to the list's rows. The rows look like that: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height=...

Getting character count of EditText

Hi all, I'm trying to get a character count of an EditText. I've looked into different properties of the EditText and TextView classes, but there doesn't seem to be a function that returns the amount of characters. I have tried to use the TextWatcher, but that is not ideal since sometimes I load a saved message into the EditText from th...

Soft keyboard "del" key fails in EditText on Gallery widget

Hi, I am developing an application in Eclipse build ID 20090920-1017 using android SDK 2.2 and testing on a Google Nexus One. For the purposes of the tests below I am using the IME "Android keyboard" on a non-rooted phone. I have an EditText widget which exhibits some very strange behavior. I can type text, and then press the "del" key...

Android: How to enable my button back if EditText is not empty?

I have 2 EditText01 and 02. My button will be disable once the activity is started. And when these two EditText box got text inside, the button have to be enabled back. However my button is always disable and can't enable back using, button.setEnabled(true);. Can anyone help me with this? Thx... :) summit.setEnabled(false); buttonEnab...

Selecting text from Edit Text and converting selected text into an image

Hi I am creating an edittext in android and i am able to select particular text in it, I want to convert the selected text into a bitmap or png image.. Is it possible ...

How to make a EditText work correctly in a ListView?

Hallo all, I have a ListView, which contains an EditText in each of it's row. I also have an Array.The length of the Array==the Nr of the rows in the ListView. I want to store the user input (the text in the EditText) to the Arrray. E.g, if i type some text in the EditText in the first row of the ListView, i want the text to be stored...

Focus problem with multiple EditText's.

I have an activity with two edittext controls. I am calling the requestFocus on the second edittext field since by default the focus goes to the first edittext control. The focus appears to be in the second edittext field (the second one gets the highlighted border), but if we try to enter any characters using the hardware keyboard the t...

Cursor postion comes to start of the edittext

Hi All, I have a small problem. In my activity i have a edittext and button. Clicking on button I am changing the inputtype of the edittext. Now whats when i click button the input type changes but the cursor goes to the begining of the text in edittext. Can i retain the same position of the cursor or can i bring the cursor to the end o...

Android Money Input with fixed decimal

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". ...

KeyCode_Enter to next edittext

Hi, In edittext, after typing 'Enter' key, system make a new line inside it. I'd like to focus on next edittext, no new line. how to code? my code in xml is below <EditText android:id="@+id/txtNPCode" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textSize="18sp" android:layout_a...

Custom component which displays voice recognition button if available

Hi evereyone, I'd like to create a custom component which supports voice recognition. It will primarily be an extended EditText which should show the microphone button for voice recognition if it is available. I wanted to to look at the search app-widget on the homescreen but I don't find it in the source. This is intended to use the v...