How to set maximum character count for EditText in Android?

Question

How to set maximum number of characters for Android EditText login? I see setMaxLines, setMaxEMS, but nothing for the number of characters.

Answer 1

In XML, you can add this line to EditText View , where 140 is the maximum number of characters:

 android:maxLength="140" 

Answer 2

You can use InputFilter to:

 EditText myEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1); InputFilter[] filters = new InputFilter[1]; filters[0] = new InputFilter.LengthFilter(10); //Filter to 10 characters myEditText .setFilters(filters); 

Answer 3

Dynamically:

 editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { new InputFilter.LengthFilter(MAX_NUM) }); 

Via xml:

 <EditText android:maxLength="@integer/max_length" 

Answer 4

This can help:

• http://www.tutorialforandroid.com/2009/02/maxlength-in-edittext-using-codes.html
• http://www.anddev.org/edit_text_max_limit_charactars-t1925.html

Answer 5

He works for me.

  etMsgDescription.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new InputFilter.LengthFilter(maximum_character)}); etMsgDescription.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() { @Override public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) { tvCharacterLimite.setText(" "+String.valueOf(maximum_character - etMsgDescription.getText().length())); } @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 } }); 

Answer 6

I always set max as follows:

  <EditText android:id="@+id/edit_blaze_it android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="@dimen/too_high" <!-- This is the line you need to write to set the max--> android:maxLength="420" />