Getting data from EditText fields

Question

I have created a custom AlertDialog with multiple EditText fields using a custom layout. Now the problem is don't know how to get data from these EditText when user clicks. Here's the AlertDialog.

    case R.id.menu_newitem:
        LayoutInflater factory = LayoutInflater.from(this);
        final View textEntryView = factory.inflate(R.layout.newvslayout, null);
        new AlertDialog.Builder(this).setTitle("New VS")
                .setView(textEntryView).setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {

                        /* User clicked OK so do some stuff */
                    }
                }).setNeutralButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {

                        /* User clicked cancel so do some stuff */
                    }
                }).show();

And this is my layout newvslayout.xml

....
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<EditText android:id="@+id/vsname" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Name"
    android:inputType="text" />

<EditText android:id="@+id/csize" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
            android:text="100" 
    android:inputType="number" />

<EditText android:id="@+id/dsize" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:text="600" android:inputType="number" />

<EditText android:id="@+id/ssize" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="200" android:inputType="number" />
....
....

see this [link](http://stackoverflow.com/a/7200155/990029). – Deepak Feb 26 '12 at 16:13 — Deepak, Feb 26 '12 at 16:13

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '12 at 15:42

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edittext t1 = (edittext) textEntryView.findviewbyid(R.id.vsname);
String s = t1.gettext().toString();

answered Feb 26 '12 at 15:42

Royi

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '12 at 16:04

Let me expand on user1027958's answer:

First, we need to get hold of the EditText components:

EditText et_vsName = (EditText) textEntryView.findviewbyid(R.id.vsname);
EditText et_cSize = (EditText) textEntryView.findviewbyid(R.id.csize);
EditText et_dSize = (EditText) textEntryView.findviewbyid(R.id.dsize);
EditText et_sSize = (EditText) textEntryView.findviewbyid(R.id.ssize);

Then we can get the text inside each of the EditText boxes into a String variable, for example:

String vsName = et_vsName.getText().toString();

The finished code would probably look like this:

case R.id.menu_newitem:
    LayoutInflater factory = LayoutInflater.from(this);
    final View textEntryView = factory.inflate(R.layout.newvslayout, null);
    final EditText et_vsName = (EditText) textEntryView.findviewbyid(R.id.vsname);
    final EditText et_cSize = (EditText) textEntryView.findviewbyid(R.id.csize);
    final EditText et_dSize = (EditText) textEntryView.findviewbyid(R.id.dsize);
    final EditText et_sSize = (EditText) textEntryView.findviewbyid(R.id.ssize);
    new AlertDialog.Builder(this).setTitle("New VS")
            .setView(textEntryView).setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                    //Get the value of the EditText(s)
                    String vsName = et_vsName.getText().toString();
                }
            }).setNeutralButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                    //Close the dialog
                    this.dismiss();
                }
            }).show();

Getting data from EditText fields

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