EditText not Editable but Scrollable When we need to show long text like Terms and conditions in EditText. We need to allow scrolling and it should not be editable. For this I tried in XML set EditText attributes to show vertical scrollbars android:scrollbars=”vertical” And then to make EditText not editable i tried different ways like android:inputType=”none” not worked, and […]
Set maxLength of EditText dynamically At times you may want to set maxlength of EditText view dynamically. You’ve to use setFilters method of EditText, as shown below. EditText et = new EditText(this); int maxLength = 3; InputFilter[] FilterArray = new InputFilter[1]; FilterArray[0] = new InputFilter.LengthFilter(maxLength); et.setFilters(FilterArray); Hope it helps somebody…Cheers 🙂 You may be also interested in […]
Default Validation EditText I found a good article here on how to use the default feature of EditText to show the error. While writing the validation on EditText on a button click event or TextChanged event instead of showing alert dialog if you want to show error we can use the default feature of EditText as EditText […]
Validate a URL / Website To validate URL/ Website name entered in a EditText, this following works fine… private boolean isValidUrl(String url) { Pattern p = Patterns.WEB_URL; Matcher m = p.matcher(url.toLowerCase()); if(m.matches()) return true; else return false; } URL should be in lowercase to validate correctly. Here is ref link. Hope this helps somebody… Cheers…
Hi Guys, When you have a layout at bottom of the screen, below a ScrollView/ListView. If you have EditText to edit data, when Softkeyboard pops up, the bottom layout moves up along with SoftKeyboard. And at times, it’s not require the bottom layout to moves up with Soft Keyboard. To handle this, you just need […]
Hi Guys, If you face a scenario, With EditText when screen is in landscape orientation, EditText and Keyboard fills the entire screen and not able to see other views. set android:imeOptions=”actionDone|flagNoExtractUi” for EditText in XML file. Solves the issue.