How to use Single TextWatcher for multiple EditTexts?

Question

I just encountered this problem. I solved it by creating an inner class implementation of TextWatcher that takes a View as an argument. Then, in the method implementation, just switch on the view to see which one the Editable is coming from

Declaration:

private class GenericTextWatcher implements TextWatcher{

    private View view;
    private GenericTextWatcher(View view) {
        this.view = view;
    }

    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {}
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {}

    public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
        String text = editable.toString();
        switch(view.getId()){
            case R.id.name:
                model.setName(text);
                break;
            case R.id.email:
                model.setEmail(text);
                break;
            case R.id.phone:
                model.setPhone(text);
                break;
        }
    }
}

Usage:

name = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.name);
name.setText(model.getName());
name.addTextChangedListener(new GenericTextWatcher(name));

email = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.email);
email.setText(model.getEmail());
email.addTextChangedListener(new GenericTextWatcher(email));

phone = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.phone);
phone.setText(model.getPhone());
phone.addTextChangedListener(new GenericTextWatcher(phone));

If you want to use only afterTextChanged compare editables:

@Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
    if (editable == mEditText1.getEditableText()) {
        // DO STH
    } else if (editable == mEditText2.getEditableText()) {
        // DO STH
    }
}

It will work with this code

TextWatcher watcher = new TextWatcher() {
  @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
            //YOUR CODE
        }

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
            //YOUR CODE
        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
          String outputedText = s.toString();

  mOutputText.setText(outputedText);

        }
    };

Then add this in oncreate

  mInputText.addTextChangedListener(watcher);
        e2.addTextChangedListener(watcher);
        e3.addTextChangedListener(watcher);
        e4.addTextChangedListener(watcher);

MultiTextWatcher Implementation

public class MultiTextWatcher {

    private TextWatcherWithInstance callback;

    public MultiTextWatcher setCallback(TextWatcherWithInstance callback) {
        this.callback = callback;
        return this;
    }

    public MultiTextWatcher registerEditText(final EditText editText) {
        editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
                callback.beforeTextChanged(editText, s, start, count, after);
            }

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
                callback.onTextChanged(editText, s, start, before, count);
            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
                callback.afterTextChanged(editText, editable);
            }
        });

        return this;
    }

    interface TextWatcherWithInstance {
        void beforeTextChanged(EditText editText, CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after);

        void onTextChanged(EditText editText, CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count);

        void afterTextChanged(EditText editText, Editable editable);
    }
}

Usage

    new MultiTextWatcher()
            .registerEditText(editText1)
            .registerEditText(editText2)
            .registerEditText(editText3)
            .setCallback(new TextWatcherWithInstance() {
                @Override
                public void beforeTextChanged(EditText editText, CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
                    // TODO: Do some thing with editText
                }

                @Override
                public void onTextChanged(EditText editText, CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
                    // TODO: Do some thing with editText
                }

                @Override
                public void afterTextChanged(EditText editText, Editable editable) {
                    // TODO: Do some thing with editText
                }
            });