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 add a counter to your TextInputEditText being wrapped in a TextInputLayout. As you can see in the example, counterEnabled enables this feature and counterMaxLengh defines the number of characters for it.