Android: How can I validate EditText input?

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Why don’t you use TextWatcher ?

Since you have a number of EditText boxes to be validated, I think the following shall suit you :

  1. Your activity implements android.text.TextWatcher interface
  2. You add TextChanged listeners to you EditText boxes
txt1.addTextChangedListener(this);
txt2.addTextChangedListener(this);
txt3.addTextChangedListener(this);
  1. Of the overridden methods, you could use the afterTextChanged(Editable s) method as follows
@Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
    // validation code goes here
}

The Editable s doesn’t really help to find which EditText box’s text is being changed. But you could directly check the contents of the EditText boxes like

String txt1String = txt1.getText().toString();
// Validate txt1String

in the same method. I hope I’m clear and if I am, it helps! 🙂

EDIT: For a cleaner approach refer to Christopher Perry’s answer below.

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