Friday, June 7, 2013

Way to define a min and max value for EditText in Android

First make this class :

public class InputFilterMinMax implements InputFilter {

    private int min, max;

    public InputFilterMinMax(int min, int max) {
        this.min = min;
        this.max = max;
    }

    public InputFilterMinMax(String min, String max) {
        this.min = Integer.parseInt(min);
        this.max = Integer.parseInt(max);
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {   
        try {
            int input = Integer.parseInt(dest.toString() + source.toString());
            if (isInRange(min, max, input))
                return null;
        } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) { }     
        return "";
    }

    private boolean isInRange(int a, int b, int c) {
        return b > a ? c >= a && c <= b : c >= b && c <= a;
    }
}

Then use this from your Activity :

EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.myEditText);
et.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{ new InputFilterMinMax("1", "12")});

This will allow user to enter values from 1 to 12 only.
NOTE : Set your edittext with android:inputType="number".
Thanks.

2 comments:

  1. can you tell something,how to give min and max text in the edit text,i think your code is for numeric,eventhough its not working.

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  2. please tell me how to set a minimum value as 20

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