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Showing posts with label How to mask an EditText to show the dd/mm/yyyy date format. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How to mask an EditText to show the dd/mm/yyyy date format. Show all posts

Monday, 25 May 2020

Android edit text to show the dd-mm-yyyy date format






Add this code your onTextChanged event.


        EditText date;

        date = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edtDateofbirth);
        date.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
            private String current = "";
            private String ddmmyyyy = "DDMMYYYY";
            private Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();


            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
                if (!s.toString().equals(current)) {
                    String clean = s.toString().replaceAll("[^\\d.]", "");
                    String cleanC = current.replaceAll("[^\\d.]", "");

                    int cl = clean.length();
                    int sel = cl;
                    for (int i = 2; i <= cl && i < 6; i += 2) {
                        sel++;
                    }
                    //Fix for pressing delete next to a forward slash
                    if (clean.equals(cleanC)) sel--;

                    if (clean.length() < 8){
                        clean = clean + ddmmyyyy.substring(clean.length());
                    }else{
                        //This part makes sure that when we finish entering numbers
                        //the date is correct, fixing it otherwise
                        int day  = Integer.parseInt(clean.substring(0,2));
                        int mon  = Integer.parseInt(clean.substring(2,4));
                        int year = Integer.parseInt(clean.substring(4,8));

                        if(mon > 12) mon = 12;
                        cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, mon-1);

                        year = (year<1900)?1900:(year>2100)?2100:year;
                        cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
                        // ^ first set year for the line below to work correctly
                        //with leap years - otherwise, date e.g. 29/02/2012
                        //would be automatically corrected to 28/02/2012

                        day = (day > cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DATE))? cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DATE):day;
                        clean = String.format("%02d%02d%02d",day, mon, year);
                    }

                    clean = String.format("%s/%s/%s", clean.substring(0, 2),
                            clean.substring(2, 4),
                            clean.substring(4, 8));

                    sel = sel < 0 ? 0 : sel;
                    current = clean;
                    date.setText(current);
                    date.setSelection(sel < current.length() ? sel : current.length());



                }
            }


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

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}
        });