Remove leading zero in edittext from a custom zero button in android

Question

I've used addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() to remove leading zeroes however it only works in android soft keyboard numpad instead of my custom numpad. n0 is the zero button. basically whenever i hit the zero button, my app crashes.

    //custom zero button
            n0.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                        input1.append("0");
                        operationA();
                }
            });

I just need the code that the zero button will not return any value when clicked to avoid leading zeros. Below is the addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher()

    input1.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
                if (s.toString().length() == 1 && s.toString().startsWith("0")) {
                    s.clear();
                }
            }
        });

Getting these error:

    AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
        Process: context, PID: 12408
        java.lang.NumberFormatException: empty String
            at java.lang.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:1071)
            at java.lang.Double.valueOf(Double.java:511)
            at context.operationA(MainActivity.java:478)
            at context$17.onClick(MainActivity.java:383)
            at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:5610)
            at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:22265)
            at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6077)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:866)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:756)

Amrdroid · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-27 09:44:45Z

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the error occurred when you try to parse string as double in operationA method but the String is Empty ,check if string is not Empty before convert it

edited Jan 27, 2019 at 9:44

answered Jan 27, 2019 at 9:00

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Cattarina Over a year ago

It still crashes :( that still works on android built in soft numpad but not my custom numpad zeron button.

Cattarina Over a year ago

updated thread with the error logs. replaced address "context" so it's not too long.

Amrdroid Over a year ago

the error occurred when you try to parse string as double but the String is Empty

David Kariuki · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-11 04:53:46Z

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I had the same problem. I solved it by writing a function below:

private String trimLeadingZeros(String string)
{
    boolean startsWithZero = true;
    while (startsWithZero)
    {
        if(string.startsWith("0") && string.length()>=2 && !string.substring(1,2).equalsIgnoreCase("."))
        {string = string.substring(1);}
        else
        {startsWithZero = false;}
    }
    return  string;
}

This function also prevents from trimming all the zeros from a string like 00000.123 (it will return 0.123 instead of useless .123).

edited Nov 11, 2019 at 4:53

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Zain · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-06 04:19:10Z

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To remove leading zero in EditText, you can have a TextWatcher that detects the first typed-in zero, and clears it

TextWatcher watcher = new TextWatcher() {
    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
        if (s.toString().equals("0")) {
            editText.removeTextChangedListener(this);
            editText.setText("");
            editText.addTextChangedListener(this);
        }

    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

    }
};

editText.addTextChangedListener(watcher);

answered Aug 6, 2020 at 4:19

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