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 use TextWatcher class to see text has changed and how much number of character remains.Here i have set counter of 140 characters.

    EditText typeMessageToPost;
    TextView number_of_character;
public void onCreate(Bundle savedBundleInstance) {
        super.onCreate(savedBundleInstance);
setContentView(R.layout.post_activity);
typeMessageToPost.addTextChangedListener(mTextEditorWatcher);
}
private final TextWatcher mTextEditorWatcher=new TextWatcher() {

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                int after) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            number_of_character.setText(String.valueOf(140-s.length()));
        }
    };