Change EditText value from text to password and vice versa on ToggleButton checked

Question

I am studying programming in Android and I'm hitting an issue. I have this toggle button and when I input a text and the button is on, the text is starred (passworded, call it whatever you want) and when the button is off, the text is a text. However, I am hitting an issue and I don't see the problem. The block of code looks like:

toggleCommand.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                if(toggleCommand.isChecked()){
                    input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD);
                } else{
                    input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
                }
            }
        });

I don't see the problem. Can you tell me what did I do wrong and explain? When I turn on the application.. I type something in and it's passworded. I press the button to uncheck it and the passworded text turns into a text. I press the button again and instead of getting passworded again, the text stays normal.

Answer 1

Here is the working code:

toggleCommand.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
    {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View arg0)
        {
            if (toggleCommand.isChecked())
            {
                input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD);
            }
            else
            {
                input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
            }
        }
    });

More info: http://thenewboston.org/watch.php?cat=6&number=27

Programmatically change input type of the EditText from PASSWORD to NORMAL & vice versa

edit: Further explanation on setInputType here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/InputType.html