How should I validate an e-mail address?

Question

What\'s a good technique for validating an e-mail address (e.g. from a user input field) in Android? org.apache.commons.validator.routines.EmailValidator doesn\'t seem to be

Answer 1

Next pattern is used in K-9 mail:

public static final Pattern EMAIL_ADDRESS_PATTERN = Pattern.compile(
          "[a-zA-Z0-9\\+\\.\\_\\%\\-\\+]{1,256}" +
          "\\@" +
          "[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9\\-]{0,64}" +
          "(" +
          "\\." +
          "[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9\\-]{0,25}" +
          ")+"
      );

You can use function

private boolean checkEmail(String email) {
        return EMAIL_ADDRESS_PATTERN.matcher(email).matches();
}

Answer 2

For an Email validation android provide some InBuilt Pattern.But it only support API level 8 and above.

Here is code for use that pattern to check email validation.

  private boolean Email_Validate(String email) 
  {
    return android.util.Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(email).matches();
  }

Make sure that after execute this method you should check that if this method return true then you allow to save email and if this method return false then display message that email is "Invalid".

Hope you get your answer, Thanks you.

Answer 3

Don't use a reg-ex.

Apparently the following is a reg-ex that correctly validates most e-mails addresses that conform to RFC 2822, (and will still fail on things like "user@gmail.com.nospam", as will org.apache.commons.validator.routines.EmailValidator)

(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])

Possibly the easiest way to validate an e-mail to just send a confirmation e-mail to the address provided and it it bounces then it's not valid.

If you want to perform some basic checks you could just check that it's in the form *@*

If you have some business logic specific validation then you could perform that using a regex, e.g. must be a gmail.com account or something.

Answer 4

use android:inputType="textEmailAddress" as below:

       <EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="email"
        android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
        android:id="@+id/email"
        />

and:

       boolean isEmailValid(CharSequence email) {
        return android.util.Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(email)
                .matches();
      }

Answer 5

Use simple one line code for email Validation

public static boolean isValidEmail(CharSequence target) {
    return !TextUtils.isEmpty(target) && android.util.Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(target).matches();
}

use like...

if (!isValidEmail(yourEdittext.getText().toString()) {
    Toast.makeText(context, "your email is not valid", 2000).show();
}

Answer 6

Validate your email address format. Ex-virag@gmail.com

public boolean emailValidator(String email) 
{
    Pattern pattern;
    Matcher matcher;
    final String EMAIL_PATTERN = "^[_A-Za-z0-9-]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9]+(\\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)*(\\.[A-Za-z]{2,})$";
    pattern = Pattern.compile(EMAIL_PATTERN);
    matcher = pattern.matcher(email);
    return matcher.matches();
}