Apps Is there any way to have android:inputType="numberDecimal" and still allow text content?

[Zerq]

Is there any way to have android:inputType="numberDecimal" and still allow text content?
I've looked everywhere to set this as a soft default.. i.e it would allow the user to switch back to text.

so far i've seen no tutorial on getting a edittext to behave this way.

is there a way of doing this?

 

[pietjuhhh1990]

numberDecimal does'nt allow text, if you want to check something you can also go for a normal text box and use a tryparse for when it would be a decimal.

 

[Zerq]

to clarify the field in question should in most cases be unput numericaly... but sometimes there are exceptions to this...

and in those cases i want the user to be able ot togle to text mode instead and be able to input regular text

 

[pietjuhhh1990]

to clarify the field in question should in most cases be unput numericaly... but sometimes there are exceptions to this...

and in those cases i want the user to be able ot togle to text mode instead and be able to input regular text

Set field to textfield.
You can use a try/catch to parse the fieldinfo if you cant parse it it's text else it's a decimal.