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

You can specify wanted characters in a regex and use it in InputFilter:

val regex = Regex("[a-zA-Z\\d ]")
    
editText.filters = arrayOf(InputFilter { source, _, _, _, _, _ ->
    source.filter { regex.matches(it.toString()) }
})

Notice, I didn't used \w character class, because it includes underscore _