Making an EditText field accept only letters and white spaces in Android
For some reason the inclusion of "\n" can not occur at the end of the string, I searched the Google documentation, most found nothing. the only way to achieve spaces and line break is including in the middle of the string. See the example I used in one of my apps.
android:digits="aãâáàbcçdeéfghiíjklmnoõôóòpqrstuvwxyzAÃÂÁÀBCÇDEÉFGHIÍJKLMNOÕÔÓÒPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890@-_'+=(){}[]*%$#!?,.;\n: /?\\"
Below change worked for me:-
android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
Put space in between your strings. If you put space at the end of a string it will get trimmed off automatically.
I have used space after ending of small letters and starting with capital letters.
Try this:
EditText yourEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourEditText);
yourEditText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {
new InputFilter() {
@Override
public CharSequence filter(CharSequence cs, int start,
int end, Spanned spanned, int dStart, int dEnd) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if(cs.equals("")){ // for backspace
return cs;
}
if(cs.toString().matches("[a-zA-Z ]+")){
return cs;
}
return "";
}
}
});