How to format the input of EditText when typing with thousands separators (,) in Android?

Question

I've an edittext , it only gets numeric without decimal numbers.

android:inputType="number"

I want to separate thousands while I'm typing . For example 25,000 .

I know I should use TextWatcher and I've used this code but I couldn't make it work :

@Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable viewss) {
            String s = null;
            try {
                // The comma in the format specifier does the trick
                s = String.format("%,d", Long.parseLong(viewss.toString()));
            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            }

        }

Could you help me to do so ?

Answer 1

Test this example:

import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;

import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class NumberTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {

    private DecimalFormat df;
    private DecimalFormat dfnd;
    private boolean hasFractionalPart;

    private EditText et;

    public NumberTextWatcher(EditText et)
    {
        df = new DecimalFormat("#,###.##");
        df.setDecimalSeparatorAlwaysShown(true);
        dfnd = new DecimalFormat("#,###");
        this.et = et;
        hasFractionalPart = false;
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    private static final String TAG = "NumberTextWatcher";

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s)
    {
        et.removeTextChangedListener(this);

        try {
            int inilen, endlen;
            inilen = et.getText().length();

            String v = s.toString().replace(String.valueOf(df.getDecimalFormatSymbols().getGroupingSeparator()), "");
            Number n = df.parse(v);
            int cp = et.getSelectionStart();
            if (hasFractionalPart) {
                et.setText(df.format(n));
            } else {
                et.setText(dfnd.format(n));
            }
            endlen = et.getText().length();
            int sel = (cp + (endlen - inilen));
            if (sel > 0 && sel <= et.getText().length()) {
                et.setSelection(sel);
            } else {
                // place cursor at the end?
                et.setSelection(et.getText().length() - 1);
            }
        } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
            // do nothing?
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            // do nothing?
        }

        et.addTextChangedListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after)
    {
    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count)
    {
        if (s.toString().contains(String.valueOf(df.getDecimalFormatSymbols().getDecimalSeparator())))
        {
            hasFractionalPart = true;
        } else {
            hasFractionalPart = false;
        }
    }

}

To use it, add a TextChangedListener to the EditText component.

editText.addTextChangedListener(new NumberTextWatcher(editText));