androidkotlinandroid-jetpack-composeandroid-jetpackandroid-compose-textfield

Restrict only numbers in TextField in jetpack compose


I want to enter only numbers in Textfield. I tried this stackoverflow logic to restrict alphabet and special characters but when I press dot in my keyboard it's crash.

Error

2022-08-18 09:47:13.966 8050-8050/com.abc.app.dev E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.abc.app.dev, PID: 8050
    java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "."
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:733)
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:865)
        at com.abc.app.yo.composable.InputKt$InputWithUnitContainer$1$1$1$1.invoke(Input.kt:187)
        at com.abc.app.yo.composable.InputKt$InputWithUnitContainer$1$1$1$1.invoke(Input.kt:186)
        at androidx.compose.foundation.text.BasicTextFieldKt$BasicTextField$7$1.invoke(BasicTextField.kt:266)
        at androidx.compose.foundation.text.BasicTextFieldKt$BasicTextField$7$1.invoke(BasicTextField.kt:264)
        at androidx.compose.foundation.text.CoreTextFieldKt$CoreTextField$onValueChangeWrapper$1.invoke(CoreTextField.kt:241)
        at androidx.compose.foundation.text.CoreTextFieldKt$CoreTextField$onValueChangeWrapper$1.invoke(CoreTextField.kt:236)
        at androidx.compose.foundation.text.TextFieldDelegate$Companion.onEditCommand(TextFieldDelegate.kt:198)
        at androidx.compose.foundation.text.TextFieldDelegate$Companion.access$onEditCommand(TextFieldDelegate.kt:90)
        at androidx.compose.foundation.text.TextFieldDelegate$Companion$restartInput$1.invoke(TextFieldDelegate.kt:246)
        at androidx.compose.foundation.text.TextFieldDelegate$Companion$restartInput$1.invoke(TextFieldDelegate.kt:243)
        at androidx.compose.ui.text.input.TextInputServiceAndroid$createInputConnection$1.onEditCommands(TextInputServiceAndroid.android.kt:111)
        at androidx.compose.ui.text.input.RecordingInputConnection.endBatchEditInternal(RecordingInputConnection.android.kt:162)
        at androidx.compose.ui.text.input.RecordingInputConnection.addEditCommandWithBatch(RecordingInputConnection.android.kt:136)
        at androidx.compose.ui.text.input.RecordingInputConnection.commitText(RecordingInputConnection.android.kt:181)
        at com.android.internal.inputmethod.RemoteInputConnectionImpl.lambda$commitText$16$com-android-internal-inputmethod-RemoteInputConnectionImpl(RemoteInputConnectionImpl.java:569)
        at com.android.internal.inputmethod.RemoteInputConnectionImpl$$ExternalSyntheticLambda34.run(Unknown Source:8)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:942)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
        at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7898)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:936)

Code

appendTextFieldValue: (TextFieldValue) -> Unit,

this is passing through function and below is my Textfield

        TextField(
                value = textFieldValue,
                singleLine = true,
                onValueChange = {
                    if (it.text.length <= maxLength && it.text.toInt() <= maxLength) {
                        appendTextFieldValue(it)
                    }
                    onIsErrorChange(false)
                },
                keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(keyboardType = KeyboardType.Number),
                isError = isError,
            )

Solution

  • You can use a regex pattern.

    Something like:

    val pattern = remember { Regex("^\\d+\$") }
    
    TextField(
        value = text,
        onValueChange = {
            if (it.isEmpty() || it.matches(pattern)) {
                text = it
            }
        },
        keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(keyboardType = KeyboardType.Number)
    )