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How to get the selected cursor position in EditText?

There is an EditText, what I want is when I select it ,I should get the cursor position. The maximum length of the edittext is 13.
Also in my edittext, the first three character's type is text and the other character's type is number. If the first three characters are selected, the input type of keyboard should show text. And if any other characters are selected ,then the input type should be number. How to do this?

I think this code can help you ❤ :
Class Code :
edittext = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edtxt);
edittext.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
edittext.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void onTextChanged(final CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
if (edittext.getText().length() < 3 ) {
edittext.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
}
else if (edittext.getText().length() == 3 ) {
edittext.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
}}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
});}}
Xml Code :
<EditText
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:maxLength="13"
android:id="#+id/edtxt"
android:ems="10"/>

Getting EditableText from EditText in RecyclerView

I've recycler view with 0 items, I've added an option to manually add the items, my stracture is simple :
RV_Item.xml (contains EditText).
MyItem, which is an Object for RV ( contains private String Text; ).
MainActivity.java, where the stuff happen.
// My List<Object>
List<MyItem> Items = new ArrayList<>();
// For Adding, I've added FAB-Button, When Clicked, it does the following :
Items.add(new MyItem());
CheckForEmptyItems();
mAdapter.notifyItemInserted(0);
Now, When the user click the save button, i want to take all the edittext in all the items he had added, i'm doing in the following way :
for(MyItem items : Items){
Log.i("PrintingInfo", items.getText() );
}
The problem is, i'm not getting the text he entered in all EditText fields, and it's returning Null in all of them, What's the issue in this ?

So, i don't know why always i know the answer after posting, but here's how you gonna know what the user typed :
in your Adapter Class, in onBindViewHolder method, add textlistener for the EditText, here's an example :
holder.MyEditText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
itemList.get(position).setText(s.toString());
}
});
Hope that helps you!

Changing textview on edittext ( when possible without a button)

I'm kinda new to java programming for android, so if i make stupid mistakes, i'm sorry.
So basically, what i wanna make is an app where if you type in the answer correctly, the next textview is gonna be displayed. And when the next textView is displayed, you're needing to give a answer to that textView, when the answer is given correctly. The textview changes again. And so on.
Does anybody have an idea how to do this?
If you don't undarstand what im saying, here is a example:
public class Game extends AppCompatActivity {
public static EditText editText_ans;
public static TextView textView_1;
String enteredText = editText.getText().toString();
If(enteredText = 3 && textView_1 = #string/1+2){
setText.textView_1(#string/3+4)
}
If(enteredText = 7 && textView_1 = #string/3+4){
setText.textView_1("100 - 23")
I'm really stuck and i hope that you guys wanna help me.

If you wanted to change the view without button you can use method addTextChangeListner() which will notify you when when the text hasbeen change for particular edittext.
edittext.addTextChangedListener(textWatcher);
private final TextWatcher textWatcher = new TextWatcher() {
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
textView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
if (s.length() == 0) {
textView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
} else{
textView.setText("You have entered : " + editText.getText());
}
}
};

int x=0; //to keep track of qustions
private List<String> mQuestionList=new ArrayList<>(); //array of question
private List<String> mAnswerList=new ArrayList<>(); //array of question answer
displayquestion.settext(mQuestionList.get(x);//displayquestion is textview
//nextquestion is the button when user click it will first check answer and than move to next question if answer is correct
nextquestion.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
String answer=editText.getText().toString();
if(answer.equal(mAnswerList.get(x)){
x=x+1;
displayquestion.settext(mQuestionList.get(x); //answer is correct display next quesion
}else{
//wrong answer
}
}
});

Issue Formatting EditText for Currency

All- I have been struggling with this for a while and have looked at all the other questions about this sort of thing but I just can't figure it out: I have an edttext field that needs to be formatted for currency. I have tried the code in all of the other questions relating to this but no matter what I try it just doesn't work. Here is my code:
EditText text = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edit_bill);
text.setRawInputType(Configuration.KEYBOARD_12KEY);
text.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher(){
EditText text = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edit_bill);
DecimalFormat dec = new DecimalFormat("0.00");
public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
}
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start,
int count, int after) {
}
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start,
int before, int count) {
if(!s.toString().matches("^\\$(\\d{1,3}(\\,\\d{3})*|(\\d+))(\\.\\d{2})?$"))
{
String userInput= ""+s.toString().replaceAll("[^\\d]", "");
if (userInput.length() > 0) {
Float in=Float.parseFloat(userInput);
float percen = in/100;
text.setText("$"+dec.format(percen));
text.setSelection(text.getText().length());
}
}
}
});
This code is inside of an onClick method. Does that make a difference (eg. the text will only be formatted when the user clicks the button)?. Thanks in advance!

I have used this method in the past for formatting money.
static public String customFormat(String pattern, double s ) {
DecimalFormat myFormatter = new DecimalFormat(pattern);
String stringFormatOutput = myFormatter.format(s);
return stringFormatOutput;
}
it can be used like this:
String strPrice = customFormat("$###,##0.00", 300.2568);
mTxt.setText(strPrice);
just change the "300.2568" to be your price. This probably could work just as well for floats instead of doubles.

Getting character count of EditText

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 the preferences, and TextWatcher does not count characters not typed right then.
Any help would be great!
Cheers!

Just grab the text in the EditText as a string and check its length:
int length = editText.getText().length();

EditText edittext;
private final TextWatcher mTextEditorWatcher = new TextWatcher() {
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
}
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
//This sets a textview to the current length
textview.setText(String.valueOf(s.length());
}
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
}
};
editText.addTextChangedListener(mTextEditorWatcher);

In Kotlin it's very easy
<EditText_name>.Text.length