How to programmatically set maxLength in Android TextView?

Question

I would like to programmatically set maxLength property of TextView as I don\'t want to hard code it in the layout. I can\'t see any set

Answer 1

For those of you using Kotlin

fun EditText.limitLength(maxLength: Int) {
    filters = arrayOf(InputFilter.LengthFilter(maxLength))
}

Then you can just use a simple editText.limitLength(10)