Implementing Text Watcher for EditText

Question

I have an EditText. When i click on it, it becomes focusable. I will type the input text to be entered into the EditText. I want to implement a listener for EditText, so that when i stop typing, it should automatically save that text into the database instead of having a button. How to have a listener for EditText to listen that typing is stopped or not?

Answer 1

Try like this.

EditText et = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText);
Log.e("TextWatcherTest", "Set text xyz");
et.setText("xyz");

et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) { }
    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) { }
    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
        Log.e("TextWatcherTest", "afterTextChanged:\t" +s.toString());
    }
});