How do I use InputFilter to limit characters in an EditText in Android?

Question

I want to restrict the chars to 0-9, a-z, A-Z and spacebar only. Setting inputtype I can limit to digits but I cannot figure out the ways of Inputfilter looking through the

Answer 1

For some reason the android.text.LoginFilter class's constructor is package-scoped, so you can't directly extend it (even though it would be identical to this code). But you can extend LoginFilter.UsernameFilterGeneric! Then you just have this:

class ABCFilter extends LoginFilter.UsernameFilterGeneric {
    public UsernameFilter() {
        super(false); // false prevents not-allowed characters from being appended
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isAllowed(char c) {
        if ('A' <= c && c <= 'C')
            return true;
        if ('a' <= c && c <= 'c')
            return true;

        return false;
    }
}

This isn't really documented, but it's part of the core lib, and the source is straightforward. I've been using it for a while now, so far no problems, though I admit I haven't tried doing anything complex involving spannables.