Android EditText Max Length

Question

I set up a max length of text in an EditText field    lt EditText             android id    id courseDescriptionField              android layout width  fill parent              android layout height  wrap content              android inputType  textMultiLine              android lines  5              android maxLength   integer max course description limit              android gravity  left top   gt           lt  EditText gt    The problem for me however is  that  text STOPS appearing after 140 characters  but it still continues to type  except that text just doesn t appear  but however  it does appear in the  buffer   meaning the suggestion thing  if that s what you would call it   As a side note  I am using a TextWatcher to keep track of the limit  Is there any way to completely limit the amount of text  so that when there are 140 characters  nothing happens when something other than backspace delete is pressed

User · Answer

If you want to see a counter label you can use app:counterEnabled and android:maxLength, like:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  app:counterEnabled="true">

  <EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:maxLength="420" />

</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

DO NOT set app:counterMaxLength on TextInputLayout because it will conflict with android:maxLength resulting into the issue of invisible chars after the text hits the size limit.

User · Answer

I had the same problem  It works perfectly fine when you add this   android inputType  textFilter    to your EditText

User · Answer

EditText editText        InputFilter   fa  new InputFilter 1   fa 0    new InputFilter LengthFilter 8   editText setFilters fa

User · Answer

If you used maxLength   6   some times what you are entering those characters are added in top of the keyboard called suggestions  So when you deleting entered letters that time it will delete suggestions first and then actual text inside EditText  For that you need to remove the suggestions just add  android inputType  textNoSuggestions      or  android inputType  textFilter    It will remove those suggestions

User · Answer

For me this solution works   edittext setInputType InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG NO SUGGESTIONS   InputType TYPE TEXT VARIATION VISIBLE PASSWORD

User · Answer

Possible duplicate of Limit text length of EditText in Android   Use android maxLength  140   That should work      Hope that helps

User · Answer

I had the same problem   Here is a workaround  android inputType  textNoSuggestions textVisiblePassword  android maxLength  6    Thx to How can I turnoff suggestions in EditText

User · Answer

You may try this      EditText et    EditText  findViewById R id myeditText       et setFilters new InputFilter    new InputFilter LengthFilter 140         maximum length is 140

[android] Android EditText Max Length

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