How to determine if an input in EditText is an integer?

Question

Hi I\'m a newbie in Android Programming.

I\'m trying to build an activity which includes an edittext field and a button. When user type in an

Answer 1

I found a much cleaner solution,which checks if the string is any type of number including integer, float, long or double.

import java.math.BigDecimal;

Boolean isNumber;

try {
    BigDecimal n = new BigDecimal(theStingToCheck);
    isNumber = true;
} catch (Exception e) {
    isNumber = false;
}