Clear EditText text after adding onTextChanged implemenation

Question

I'm adding a listener to an EditText field to appropriately format the number to currency in real time.

        loanText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        private String current = "";
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
            if(!s.toString().equals(current)){
               String cleanString = s.toString().replaceAll("[$,.]", "");

               double parsed = Double.parseDouble(cleanString);
               String formated = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance().format((parsed/100));

               current = formated;
               loanText.setText(formated);
               loanText.setSelection(formated.length());
            }
        }
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                int after) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }
    });

However, when I try to clear the EditView field, my App will crash. In addition, the backspace key no longer functions.

Could you post the output of logcat? I'm curious about the error you are getting. It might be a `NumberFormatError` or (less likely?) an ANR due to an infinite loop. — Matthew, Apr 06 '11 at 14:35
Try removing String current and use if(s.toString().length() != 0) {} — MataMix, Jun 07 '12 at 10:09
please see this way : https://stackoverflow.com/a/67753559/12272687 — Mori, May 29 '21 at 16:22

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '11 at 13:55

The problem is that your TextWatcher sees that you are "clearing" the text, and therefore sends off a request to its callback methods(afterTextChanged, beforeTextChanged, etc).

What i've done is to simply remove the TextWatcher, clear the text, and add the TextWatcherback to the EditText. That way, nothing is listening to my EditText changes.

You will probably have to hold on to an instance of the TextWatcher instead of inlining it like you did. That way you don't have to create one every time you want to clear the EditText

loanText.removeTextChangedListener(yourTextWatcherObject);
loanText.setText("");
loanText.addTextChangedListener(yourTextWatcherObject);

I'd suggest to use a boolean variable controlling if the listener should do anything. — maaartinus, Sep 15 '12 at 16:12
it is Not working for me is there sample code or other solution for it Thank you — Hardik Vasani, May 16 '17 at 10:27

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 12 '12 at 23:32

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Try to use afterTextChanged instead. I also had many problems with the other one.

edited Jul 12 '12 at 23:32

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answered Apr 06 '11 at 13:50

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 07 '12 at 10:33

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I found this class that works great for me: http://www.java2s.com/Code/Android/UI/ConvertinputvaluetoCurrencyinTextWatcher.htm

hope that will save you guys some time.

answered Jun 07 '12 at 10:33

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 19 '15 at 08:09

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
EditText et;
TextWatcher tw;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    et=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.et);

     tw=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) {
            et.removeTextChangedListener(tw);
            et.setText(Math.random()+"");//add your logic here 
            et.addTextChangedListener(tw);
        }};
        et.addTextChangedListener(tw);
}

} This is a Simple solution.

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 19 '15 at 09:11

You can check whether Text is empty in onTextChanged as follows and do nothing if it is empty

s.toString().isEmpty()

public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
        if(!s.toString().equals(current) && !s.toString().isEmpty()){
           String cleanString = s.toString().replaceAll("[$,.]", "");

           double parsed = Double.parseDouble(cleanString);
           String formated = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance().format((parsed/100));

           current = formated;
           loanText.setText(formated);
           loanText.setSelection(formated.length());
        }
    }

Clear EditText text after adding onTextChanged implemenation

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