Android Application Development Tutorial - 27 - Set the Input Type of an EditText

[XdrummerXboy]

Tutorials at 4:05 in the morning Travis?! That's some serious dedication to helping your fans! THANKS!

[LegitFish]

Thanks for making these tutorials, Travis. They are really helping me along.

[devilazpl]

u can use + instead of |

[johnkmoore99]

not lame tutorial by any means. Thanks for putting these together. I appreciate the level you explained these at - just right for me, I have little java or eclipse background. If you want to program for android you have to learn java, but probably not to the level that java tutorials teach. This great, and staying up till 4 in the morning to make free tutorials for us - wow, just wow.

[MrWrharris]

Love the NewBoston, on tutorial 25 you use the ischecked() in the newer version of eclips this is not used .do you know how to get the same result with anything else

[robertlam18]

not lame, pretty good. Why you always do this late at night ? Is this your part time job ?

[xteric1]

Why not just do a: input.setInputType(TYPE_TEXT_V­ARIATION_PASSWORD);

[CorporateSilverback]

I was ok until this stage... Now I get Unfortunately... ****** has stopped. Any ideas? :(

[supersushi269]

@CorporateSilverback I saw a similar comment of yours some tuts back. If you havent given up then then why give up now?

[CorporateSilverback]

@supersushi269 Who said I gave up? Im well past this stage now...

[Mr1159pm]

couldn't you get passTog state from the View object v that is passed to the onClick() method instead of finalizing passTog?

I browsed through some of the available methods and found some that could work. For example v.isPrssed() seems like it could do the same job.

It seems like a more elegant solution

[JRodriguez609]

or

[mrsoygenialyque]

yeah, its called pipe, but it means a bitwise OR...

|||||||

[ChrisBuckethead]

At 4 AM you're doing Android tutorials!!!

[gnatpat]

'|' is not a pipe, it's a bitwise OR. It takes two binary numbers and if either of the bits of equal value are 1, that bit in the answer is 1. e.g.:

1010

1001

------

1011

How this relates to the input type: Each of the InputTypes are actually just ints. TYPE_CLASS_TEXT is 1, and TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD is 128 (or 10000000). Perform a bitwise OR on them:

00000001

10000000

------------

10000001 which is 129. Try entering input.setInputType(129); instead, you'll see it'll work. :)

[TheDomeOfGenesys]

@gnatpat Thank you so much... that cleared that doubt.

[batimentcfa35]

" | " It's call "pipe" !

[wetwilly543]

Thanks for posting some tutorials about Android. However, I'm finding myself skipping through 90% of each tutorial because the topics about Java basics could be tutorials in of themselves under your Java section. I came here to learn about Android. What you DON'T want is people that don't know anything about programming and making crappy apps.. jk, but not really ;) . And yes, "pipes" are common knowledge in shell scipting/command line. Good job though for making these tutorials.

[danielson233]

@wetwilly543 I believe this a big problem with programmers. they typically have close to nothing else in life so they want to keep programming an elite practice...this is helpful for those who are not inclined to programming. though I see your point, I spend a good amount of time skipping through it, but come on stfu

[wetwilly543]

@danielson233 I apologize if the comment came off as arrogant. My intention was more of constructive criticism. Programming doesn't have to be an elite practice. There are resources everywhere on how to program. I highly recommend learning the foundation language that the Android API was built upon. Those armed with the knowledge will write faster, more robust applications.Tell me I'm wrong. I'm trying to help steer people in the right direction here...

[swetuswet]

Can anybody explain me

input.setInputType(InputType.T­YPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_­PASSWORD);

what does this line means exactly

[Peterscolumn]

@swetuswet input.setInputType(InputType.T­­YPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_­­PASSWORD); TYPE_CLASS_TEXT is what you can enter in your input, TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_­PASSWORD is what is going to display. I think he only put TYPE_CLASS_TEXT in the else because he don't need to choose a way to display text.

[swetuswet]

@Peterscolumn that makes sense now ...thanks :)

[Mrgreatestfreakout]

I really want to suggest you that, you must tell those beginners "go to new boston.com , learn about what object oriented is so you can understand what classes is, learn what event driven is, and what function is blahblahbalbah ".

[Mrgreatestfreakout]

Travis, your tutorials are awesome and you did an incredible job with participating in free education. But, I really need to point out one thing. For myself, although I am completely new to Android, but fortunately, I did Java and several other objective oriented programming before so I can understand your tutorials. But For Super Duper beginners out there who barely started to knowing about programming and just learnt what variable is yesterday, I think they are having toooo much trouble now..

[ErichLancaster]

I don't want to sound like an old record but:

"We're just getting familiar with Java" - These really are awesome tutorials, but the going back to the Java is holding people back. I spent many months learning Java waiting for these tutorials, knowing that I could zoom ahead once they arrived. I don't think teaching Java in such a complicated environment will help people who haven't already learnt it and it will just hinder the ones who do already know Java.

[juliobahar]

This tutorial in far from being lame. It encompasses so many essential java tips and tricks to the Java aware people, on top of android development.

I'm personally learning a lot of your tutorial. Thx Travis and Bucky

[BretzelPretzel]

can you explain what that pipe line is all about? i think i understand everything else, but that was not very clear...

[casvanmarcel]

FTMP =))



[vibol03]

great tutorials!!! anyway at 3:25 thats called a pipe i think

[specipful]

@vibol03 yep, it's called a pipe line

[yanislav49]

Your tutorials are not lame. Only people who are lame say that they are lame. Lamers!!!