how to set only numeric value for EditTextPreference in android?

Question

how to set only numeric value for EditTextPreference in android. I want a user to enter a port number not sure how can I put the limitation there

I am using this co

Answer 1

Kotlin Code which worked for me:

Here "editTextPrefSleepTime" is a key of EditTextPreference, which I set on xml file.

    private var editTextPrefSleepTime: EditTextPreference? = null

     override fun onStart() {
         super.onStart()
         editTextPrefSleepTime = preferenceManager.findPreference("editTextPrefSleepTime")
         editTextPrefSleepTime?.setOnBindEditTextListener {
             it.inputType = InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER
         }
     }

Answer 2

Access the EditTextPreference's EditText methods with getEditText and set the input type

EditTextPreference pref = (EditTextPreference) findPreference("pref_edit_text");
if (pref != null) {
    pref.getEditText().setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
}

Unfortunate the offical library android.support.v7.preference hide access to getEditText, but there is a fix library that soloves this.

Answer 3

EditTextPreference widgets should take the same attributes as a regular EditText, so use:

android:inputType="number"

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Or more specifically use:

android:inputType="numberDecimal"
android:digits="0123456789"

since you want to limit the input to a port number only.

Answer 4

I use an androidX library because this library has a possibility to customize an input type of EditTextPreference dialog. AndroidX is a major improvement to the original Android Support Library so is suggested that everybody use this library. You can read more about AndroidX here.

Here is my code where I use EditTextPreference inside of onCreatePreference method:

 @Override
    public void onCreatePreferences(Bundle savedInstanceState, String rootKey) {
        setPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preference, rootKey);



androidx.preference.EditTextPreference editTextPreference = getPreferenceManager().findPreference("use_key_from_editTextPreference_in_xml_file");
editTextPreference.setOnBindEditTextListener(new androidx.preference.EditTextPreference.OnBindEditTextListener() {
            @Override
            public void onBindEditText(@NonNull EditText editText) {
                editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER | InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_SIGNED);

            }
        });

       }

After you use this code and click on editTextPreference, the dialog will pop up and your keyboard input type will be only numeric.

Answer 5

Using androidx.preference library, since androidx.preference:preference:1.1.0-alpha02 which is realeased on 2018.12.17, the library adds EditTextPreference.OnBindEditTextListener interface, which allows you to customize the EditText displayed in the corresponding dialog after the dialog has been bound.

So in this case, all you have to do is to add the Kotlin code below.

val editTextPreference = preferenceManager.findPreference<EditTextPreference>("YOUR_PREFERENCE_KEY")
editTextPreference.setOnBindEditTextListener { editText ->
                editText.inputType = InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER
}

Answer 6

EditTextPreference with decimal number input (Kotlin):

var myEditTextPreference : EditTextPreference? = findPreference("myEditTextPreferenceKey")

    myEditTextPreference?.setOnBindEditTextListener { editText ->
        editText.inputType = InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER or InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_DECIMAL

    }