How to exclude special characters from android keypad for EditText

Question

Hi I want to show only numbers and characters on the keypad for EditText in android, I did try to add the attribute android:inputType = text|number but it did not work.

Please help me with any other better suggestion. thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use the filter for that. Here I am adding the code for filter.

  EditText etName = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.etName);   InputFilter filter = new InputFilter() {          @Override         public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {              for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {                  if (!Character.isLetterOrDigit(source.charAt(i))) {                      return "";                  }              }              return null;          }   };   etName.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{filter});