Live character count for EditText

Question

I was wondering what the best way to do a live character count of an edit-text box is in Android. I was looking at this but I couldn\'t seem to make any sense of it.

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Answer 1

You can do character counting from xml itself using TextInputLayout wrapper for EditText introduced in SupportLibrary v23.1

Just wrap your EditText with a TextInputLayout and set CounterEnabled to true and Set a counterMaxLength.

You'll get a material effect like this

You may use counterOverflowTextAppearance , counterTextAppearance to style the counter.

EDIT

From Android documentation.

The TextInputEditText class is provided to be used as a child of this layout. Using TextInputEditText allows TextInputLayout greater control over the visual aspects of any text input. An example usage is as so:

TextInputLayout TextInputEditText