Edit text should take both characters and numbers

Question

I have an EditText box and I want the default keyboard that should come up when it is selected to be the alphabetic keypad, since most of the time users will be entering alphabetic characters.

However, I also want to allow users to enter numbers too, if they need to. Using android:inputType="text" restricts input to characters only. What options do I have?

android:digits="@string/specific_chars" http://stackoverflow.com/a/10929070/1012284 — Padma Kumar, Jun 28 '13 at 13:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '13 at 13:49

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android:inputType="text" was not supposed to block numbers to be inserted, anyway, you can always use the "|".

Take a look at the docs. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:inputType

answered Jun 28 '13 at 13:49

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 28 '13 at 13:58

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Put this on your layout:

android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,0123456789"

Those will be the only allowed symbols.

answered Jun 28 '13 at 13:58

g00dy

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 28 '13 at 14:01

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Use this code in layout:

 android:digits="@string/edittextDigit"

and string.xml

 <string name="edittextDigit">qwertzuiopasdfghjklyxcvbnmQWERTZUIOPASDFGHJKLYXCVBNM</string>

So, users can enter characters specified by you.

answered Jun 28 '13 at 14:01

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Edit text should take both characters and numbers

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