Getting text from EditText without a button

Question

In my app i create an EditText dynamically when a CheckBox is not checked and i want to get the text the user writes in it. The problem is that i don't know where to write the getText().toString(). I have debugged this and i see that when the EditText is created the getText().toString() is executed immediately and returns always "" . I have also tried the focusChange in the EditText but without any success. Any help is appreciated!

        final EditText editText = new EditText(this);
        TableRow.LayoutParams params = new TableRow.LayoutParams(getPx(100) , ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        params.setMargins(0 ,0 ,getPx(100) ,0);
        tr.addView(editText);
        date = editText.getText().toString();

Answer 1

Have you tried this:

         editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
            @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(isValidDate()) {
                   date = s.toString();
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

            }
        });

    ...

    private boolean isValidDate() {
       // implement your logic here
    }