Question

i want to make a edit text in which can only be able to enter only alphabatical character means from a-z no other numeric or special charaacter are not allowed so how to do it?

i had tried

<EditText
     **android:inputType="text"**
     android:id="@+id/state" 
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="50dip" 
    android:layout_marginLeft="100dip" 
     android:layout_height="40dip"
      android:layout_width="200dip"
        />

but it accept all the values means numeric and special character also.so how to restrict it
means user can only enter a-z values.

Answer 1

see the InputType in android this is the reference Input Type API