Text Only Input EditText android

Question

I want to restric user from entering any special character or number into edit text, but programmatically it should allow.

I know I can make inputType="text" but it deals only with the softkeyboard. I think it can be achived with TextWatcher, but I am not able to gel evrything. Can anyone help ?

what you mean by: "programmatically it should allow"? – Macarse Nov 24 '10 at 11:18 — Macarse, Nov 24 '10 at 11:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 27 '15 at 11:38

You can filter input text by following ,

etTwamboxName.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { new InputFilter() {
            public CharSequence filter(CharSequence src, int start, int end,
                    Spanned dst, int dstart, int dend) {

                Log.e("", "===> " + src);
                if (src.equals("")) { // for backspace
                    return src;
                }

                if (src.toString().matches("[a-zA-Z ]+.")) {
                    return src;
                }

                return "";
            }
        } });

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Try this way,Reference

android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
android:inputType="text"

For more info, you may check http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:digits

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jul 27 '15 at 10:51

IntelliJ Amiya

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 24 '10 at 11:11

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editTextView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_NORMAL);

There are many other types of inputs available for Password, Email address etc. Please see This API Link

Thanks :)

answered Nov 24 '10 at 11:11

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Thankx but thats the default behavior, I want to make it character only. No numbers or special characters. Character which range A-Z. I achived it with TextWatcher. Thanx anyways. – Shardul Nov 26 '10 at 07:21

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