MaskedEditText for Android

This is a masked edit text widget for Android. It handles copy and paste, cursor positioning without being super slow or doing complicated things.

Installation

Gradle

compile 'com.github.reinaldoarrosi:maskededittext:1.1.0'

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.reinaldoarrosi</groupId>
  <artifactId>maskededittext</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.0</version>
  <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

Usage

MaskedEditText is, as you might have imagined, a class that inherits from EditText. This means that every thing you can do with a EditText you can with a MaskedEditText. Besides that, there are only 5 extra methods:

setMask(String mask)

This is used to set a mask. MaskedEditText will try to match the current text with the new mask, so if you change the mask and your text is still valid you'll not lose it.

getMask()

This method returns the current mask.

setPlaceholder(char placeholder)

This is used to set the placeholder character. This character is shown where an input is expected an by default the placeholder char is a white-space

getPlaceholder()

This method returns the current character that is being used as the placeholder char.

getText(boolean removeMask)

This method is exaclty like getText() except that you're able to pass a parameter that will determine if the value returned will contain the mask characters or not.

Mask

The mask is a simple sequence of character where some of these have a special meaning. Any character that does not have a special meaning will be treated as a literal character and will appear as is in the MaskedEditText.

These are the chars that have a special meaning within the mask:

• 9: Numeric mask (this will accept only numbers to be typed)
• A: Alpha mask (this will accept only alphabetic letters to be typed)
• *: Alphanumeric (this will accept numbers and alphabetic letters to be typed)
• ?: Character mask (this will accept anything to be typed)

Examples:

• phone mask: (999) 999-9999
• money: $999,999,999.99
• random valid mask: (A)?99A-9++??

If you need one of these special chars to be treated as a literal char you can use the escape char '' in front of it:

Example: Suppose that in the phone mask we need to add a preceding digit that will always be 9, to do this we can change the mask like this:

• phone mask: \9(999) 999-9999

If you need to display the escape char as a literal char just double the escape char like this:

• phone mask: \\(999) 999-9999