How to check edittext's text is email address or not?

Question

On Android 2.2+ use this:

boolean isEmailValid(CharSequence email) {
   return android.util.Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(email).matches();
}

for example:

EditText emailid = (EditText) loginView.findViewById(R.id.login_email);
String getEmailId = emailid.getText().toString();

// Check if email id is valid or not
if (!isEmailValid(getEmailId)){
    new CustomToast().Show_Toast(getActivity(), loginView,
        "Your Email Id is Invalid.");
}

/**
 * method is used for checking valid email id format.
 * 
 * @param email
 * @return boolean true for valid false for invalid
 */
public static boolean isEmailValid(String email) {
    String expression = "^[\\w\\.-]+@([\\w\\-]+\\.)+[A-Z]{2,4}$";
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(expression, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(email);
    return matcher.matches();
}

Pass your edit text string in this function .

for right email verification you need server side authentication

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Note there is now a built-in method in Android, see answers below.

Please follow the following Steps

Step 1 :

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText_email"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView_email"
        android:layout_marginTop="40dp"
        android:hint="Email Adderess"
        android:inputType="textEmailAddress" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView_email"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
        android:text="Email Validation Example" />

</RelativeLayout>

Step 2:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.widget.EditText;

Step 3:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private EditText email;

private String valid_email;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    initilizeUI();
}

/**
 * This method is used to initialize UI Components
 */
private void initilizeUI() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    email = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText_email);

    email.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
                int count) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                int after) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Is_Valid_Email(email); // pass your EditText Obj here.
        }

        public void Is_Valid_Email(EditText edt) {
            if (edt.getText().toString() == null) {
                edt.setError("Invalid Email Address");
                valid_email = null;
            } else if (isEmailValid(edt.getText().toString()) == false) {
                edt.setError("Invalid Email Address");
                valid_email = null;
            } else {
                valid_email = edt.getText().toString();
            }
        }

        boolean isEmailValid(CharSequence email) {
            return android.util.Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(email)
                    .matches();
        } // end of TextWatcher (email)
    });

}

}

I wrote a library that extends EditText which supports natively some validation methods and is actually very flexible.

Current, as I write, natively supported (through xml attributes) validation methods are:

1. regexp: for custom regexp
2. numeric: for an only numeric field
3. alpha: for an alpha only field
4. alphaNumeric: guess what?
5. email: checks that the field is a valid email
6. creditCard: checks that the field contains a valid credit card using Luhn Algorithm
7. phone: checks that the field contains a valid phone number
8. domainName: checks that field contains a valid domain name ( always passes the test in API Level < 8 )
9. ipAddress: checks that the field contains a valid ip address webUrl: checks that the field contains a valid url ( always passes the test in API Level < 8 )
10. nocheck: It does not check anything. (Default)

You can check it out here: https://github.com/vekexasia/android-form-edittext

Hope you enjoy it :)

In the page I linked you'll be able to find also an example for email validation. I'll copy the relative snippet here:

<com.andreabaccega.widget.FormEditText
       style="@android:style/Widget.EditText"
       whatever:test="email"
       android:id="@+id/et_email"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:hint="@string/hint_email"
       android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
       />  

There is also a test app showcasing the library possibilities.

This is a screenshot of the app validating the email field.

As mentioned in one of the answers you can use the Patterns class as below:

public final static boolean isValidEmail(CharSequence target) {
    if (target == null) 
        return false;

    return android.util.Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(target).matches();
}

By chance if you are even supporting API level less than 8, then you can simply copy the Patterns.java file into your project and reference it. You can get the source code for Patterns.java from this link

In your case you can use the android.util.Patterns package.

EditText email = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.user_email);

if(Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(email.getText().toString()).matches())
    Toast.makeText(this, "Email is VALID.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
else
    Toast.makeText(this, "Email is INVALID.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();