create edit text only accept or able to enter only alphabetical character from a-z only android

Question

i want to make a edit text in which can only be able to enter only alphabatical character means from a-z no other numeric or special charaacter are not allowed so how to do it?

i had tried

<EditText
     **android:inputType="text"**
     android:id="@+id/state" 
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="50dip" 
    android:layout_marginLeft="100dip" 
     android:layout_height="40dip"
      android:layout_width="200dip"
        />

but it accept all the values means numeric and special character also.so how to restrict it means user can only enter a-z values.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 24 '13 at 12:12

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Type in your xml respective EditText....

android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

EditText will not accept digits or special character but alphabets only..

answered Oct 24 '13 at 12:12

Naveed Ashraf

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '11 at 10:18

i did it using

                            @Override
            public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start,
                    int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
                  for (int i = start; i < end; i++) { 
                      if (!Character.isLetter(source.charAt(i))) { 
                              return ""; 
                      } 
              }                     return null;
            } 
    }; 


        EditText etcity=   ((EditText) findViewById(R.id.city));
        etcity.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{filter});

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '11 at 06:50

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see the InputType in android this is the reference Input Type API

answered Oct 01 '11 at 06:50

Parag Chauhan

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said do it and do it inside textChangedListener()..:) – Android Killer Oct 01 '11 at 06:53
@parag hi i did it pls. accept my question ..so that i can post my answer ,below 100 reputations i cant post my answer... vv thanks... – shyam Oct 01 '11 at 07:10

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 04 '14 at 12:14

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If you want EditTest to have only characters with white spaces use this:

android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz "

Note that white space at the end of abcd... string.

edited Sep 04 '14 at 12:14

Yurii

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answered Sep 04 '14 at 11:49

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create edit text only accept or able to enter only alphabetical character from a-z only android

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