EditText with not-editable/not-cancellable suffix

Question

i created a layout for one of my activities in which users can insert a value in some EditText widget. I need that some of these EditText must have a suffix (like cm, mm and so on) that has to be not editable. After the user has inserted the value i will parse the content of these EditText avoiding the suffix so i will handle the only input without the suffix. How to do that?

I have already searched and searched here on SO but nothing helped me. I found answers like this one https://stackoverflow.com/a/20794581/2516399 that don't help me.

I hope i was clear in my question... sorry for my english

Answer 1

This is my solution: An EditText class that draws the suffix behind the text. There are two custom attributes for defining the text of the suffix and the suffix padding (to the left corner of the EditText).

public class EditTextWithSuffix extends EditText {
    TextPaint textPaint = new TextPaint();
    private String suffix = "";
    private float suffixPadding;

    public EditTextWithSuffix(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public EditTextWithSuffix(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        getAttributes(context, attrs, 0);
    }

    public EditTextWithSuffix(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        getAttributes(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    }

    @Override
    public void onDraw(Canvas c){
        super.onDraw(c);
        int suffixXPosition = (int) textPaint.measureText(getText().toString()) + getPaddingLeft();
        c.drawText(suffix, Math.max(suffixXPosition, suffixPadding), getBaseline(), textPaint);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onFinishInflate() {
        super.onFinishInflate();
        textPaint.setColor(getCurrentTextColor());
        textPaint.setTextSize(getTextSize());
        textPaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.LEFT);
    }

    private void getAttributes(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.EditTextWithSuffix, defStyleAttr, 0);
        if(a != null) {
            suffix = a.getString(R.styleable.EditTextWithSuffix_suffix);
            if(suffix == null) {
                suffix = "";
            }
            suffixPadding = a.getDimension(R.styleable.EditTextWithSuffix_suffixPadding, 0);
        }
        a.recycle();
    }
}

here is the attributes definition:

<resources>
    <declare-styleable name="EditTextWithSuffix">
        <attr name="suffix" format="string|reference" />
        <attr name="suffixPadding" format="dimension" />
    </declare-styleable>
</resources>