How to check edittext's text is email address or not?

how to check the text of edittext is email address or not without using javascript and regular expression? Here I used inputtype="textEmailAddress" this is working but no error message is display.


Solution 1:

On Android 2.2+ use this:

boolean isEmailValid(CharSequence email) {
   return android.util.Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(email).matches();
}

for example:

EditText emailid = (EditText) loginView.findViewById(R.id.login_email);
String getEmailId = emailid.getText().toString();

// Check if email id is valid or not
if (!isEmailValid(getEmailId)){
    new CustomToast().Show_Toast(getActivity(), loginView,
        "Your Email Id is Invalid.");
}

Solution 2:

/**
 * method is used for checking valid email id format.
 * 
 * @param email
 * @return boolean true for valid false for invalid
 */
public static boolean isEmailValid(String email) {
    String expression = "^[\\w\\.-]+@([\\w\\-]+\\.)+[A-Z]{2,4}$";
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(expression, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(email);
    return matcher.matches();
}

Pass your edit text string in this function .

for right email verification you need server side authentication


Note there is now a built-in method in Android, see answers below.

Solution 3:

Please follow the following Steps

Step 1 :

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText_email"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView_email"
        android:layout_marginTop="40dp"
        android:hint="Email Adderess"
        android:inputType="textEmailAddress" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView_email"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
        android:text="Email Validation Example" />

</RelativeLayout>

Step 2:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.widget.EditText;

Step 3:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private EditText email;

private String valid_email;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    initilizeUI();
}

/**
 * This method is used to initialize UI Components
 */
private void initilizeUI() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    email = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText_email);

    email.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
                int count) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                int after) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Is_Valid_Email(email); // pass your EditText Obj here.
        }

        public void Is_Valid_Email(EditText edt) {
            if (edt.getText().toString() == null) {
                edt.setError("Invalid Email Address");
                valid_email = null;
            } else if (isEmailValid(edt.getText().toString()) == false) {
                edt.setError("Invalid Email Address");
                valid_email = null;
            } else {
                valid_email = edt.getText().toString();
            }
        }

        boolean isEmailValid(CharSequence email) {
            return android.util.Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(email)
                    .matches();
        } // end of TextWatcher (email)
    });

}

}

Solution 4:

I wrote a library that extends EditText which supports natively some validation methods and is actually very flexible.

Current, as I write, natively supported (through xml attributes) validation methods are:

  1. regexp: for custom regexp
  2. numeric: for an only numeric field
  3. alpha: for an alpha only field
  4. alphaNumeric: guess what?
  5. email: checks that the field is a valid email
  6. creditCard: checks that the field contains a valid credit card using Luhn Algorithm
  7. phone: checks that the field contains a valid phone number
  8. domainName: checks that field contains a valid domain name ( always passes the test in API Level < 8 )
  9. ipAddress: checks that the field contains a valid ip address webUrl: checks that the field contains a valid url ( always passes the test in API Level < 8 )
  10. nocheck: It does not check anything. (Default)

You can check it out here: https://github.com/vekexasia/android-form-edittext

Hope you enjoy it :)

In the page I linked you'll be able to find also an example for email validation. I'll copy the relative snippet here:

<com.andreabaccega.widget.FormEditText
       style="@android:style/Widget.EditText"
       whatever:test="email"
       android:id="@+id/et_email"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:hint="@string/hint_email"
       android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
       />  

There is also a test app showcasing the library possibilities.

This is a screenshot of the app validating the email field.

email validation done thorugh xml+library