Phone number formatting an EditText in Android

Question

I am making a simple Address Book app (targeting 4.2) that takes name, address, city, state, zip and phone. I want to format the phone number input as a phone number (XXX) XXX-XXXX, but I need to pull the value out as a string so I can store it in my database when I save. How can i do this?? I have the EditText set for "phone number" input but that obviously doesn't do too much.

Accepted Answer

There is a library called PhoneNumberUtils that can help you to cope with phone number conversions and comparisons. For instance, use ...

```
EditText text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextId);
PhoneNumberUtils.formatNumber(text.getText().toString())
```

... to format your number in a standard format.

```
PhoneNumberUtils.compare(String a, String b);
```

... helps with fuzzy comparisons. There are lots more. Check out http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/PhoneNumberUtils.html for more.

p.s. setting the the EditText to `phone` is already a good choice; eventually it might be helpful to add `digits` e.g. in your layout it looks as ...

```
<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editTextId"
    android:inputType="phone"
    android:digits="0123456789+" 
/> 
```

Phone number formatting an EditText in Android

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