Getting the number of characters in an EditText

Question

I am trying to get the number of characters in an EditText. I studied the different properties of the EditText and TextView classes, but there seems to be no function that returns the number of characters. I tried to use TextWatcher, but this is not ideal, because sometimes I load the saved message into EditText from the settings, and TextWatcher does not take into account characters that were not entered directly.

Any help would be great!

Hooray!

Answer 1

Just take the text in EditText as a string and check its length:

int length = editText.getText().length(); 

Answer 2

 EditText edittext; private final TextWatcher mTextEditorWatcher = new TextWatcher() { public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) { } public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) { //This sets a textview to the current length textview.setText(String.valueOf(s.length()); } public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) { } }; editText.addTextChangedListener(mTextEditorWatcher);