How to remove all listeners added with addTextChangedListener

Question

I have a ListView where each row has an EditText control. I want to add a TextChangedListener to each row; one that contains extra dat

Answer 1

I struggled with a similar problem with a lot of EditTexts in RecyclerView. I solved it by reflection. Call ReflectionTextWatcher.removeAll(your_edittext) before bind views. This piece of code finds all TextWatchers and removes them from the local EditText's list called "mListeners".

public class ReflectionTextWatcher {
    public static void removeAll(EditText editText) {
        try {
            Field field = findField("mListeners", editText.getClass());
            if (field != null) {
                field.setAccessible(true);
                ArrayList list = (ArrayList) field.get(editText); //IllegalAccessException
                if (list != null) {
                    list.clear();
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    private static Field findField(String name, Class type) {
        for (Field declaredField : type.getDeclaredFields()) {
            if (declaredField.getName().equals(name)) {
                return declaredField;
            }
        }
        if (type.getSuperclass() != null) {
            return findField(name, type.getSuperclass());
        }
        return null;
    }
}

I hope, this will help someone.