PatternedEditText

PatternedEditText is an EditText that shows its text according to a pattern.

If you want your EditText to show its text with slight modifications as the user inputs, you need to implement a TextWatcher.

With using default EditTexts, you'd probably need to implement different TextWatchers for different input types.

PatternedEditText provides you a simple way to achieve this with a pattern of your need.

For instance,

• "#### #### #### ####" as Credit Card Numbers,
• "(###)-(### ## ##)" as Phone Numbers,
• "##/##/####" as Dates etc.

Usage

Define your PatternedEditText in your layout.

<com.faradaj.patternededittext.PatternedEditText

 xmlns:pet="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

 android:id="@+id/edit_text_phone_number"

 pet:pattern="(###)-(### ## ##)"

 pet:specialChar="#"
  <!-- optional, # by default -->

 pet:showHint="true"
  <!-- optional, false by default -->

 android:inputType="number"

 android:digits="0123456789 ()-"

 android:layout_width="match_parent"

 android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

pet:pattern: This is your pattern definition, you need to define one. pet:specialChar: This is the special character that you use in your pattern to indicate user-input characters. If you don't define one '#' character is used. pet:showHint: If you set this true, your pattern is used as hint, overriding EditTexts android:hint.

Important Points

• You need to use getRawText() method when you need your PatternedEditTexts raw text.

• You need to add necessary digits to android:digits of PatternedEditText. For instance, phone number may only need numbers so you had defined android:inputType="number" previously. And if your pattern pet:pattern="(###)-(### ## ##)" includes custom characters, now you need to define android:digits="0123456789 ()-" too.

Dependency

• Run gradle install on patterned-edit-text library project.

• In your build.gradle:

repositories {

  mavenLocal() 
}
 dependencies {

  compile 'com.faradaj:patterned-edit-text:[LATEST_RELEASE_VERSION]' 
}

or

• In your pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>com.faradaj</groupId>
<artifactId>patterned-edit-text</artifactId>
<version>[LATEST_RELEASE_VERSION]</version> </dependency>

or you can clone and add patterned-edit-text as a library project to yours.

License

The MIT License (MIT)  Copyright (c) 2014 Gokberk Ergun  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.