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Format EditText view for phone numbers

I have an EditText view and I want it to format the user's input into the phone number format. For example, when the user types in 1234567890, the EditText view should dynamically show it as "(123) 456-7890" as soon as the first 3 numbers are inputted.

I tried the following in my OnCreate but it didn't seem to do anything for me...

EditText ET = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.add_number);
ET.addTextChangedListener(new PhoneNumberFormattingTextWatcher());

How can I get the user's input to display in the phone number format?

Solution

  • I did a combination of things, i modified my input type to phone, then I used regex to remove all non numeric characters: phonenumber = phonenumber.replaceAll("\D", "");