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

try this

private TextWatcher textWatcher = new TextWatcher() {
    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(final CharSequence s, final int start, final int count, final int after) {
        editText.post(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                if (length < 100) {
                    if (count > 0 && after <= 0)/*remove emoij*/ {
                        length--;
                    } else if (count > after)/*remove text*/ {
                        length--;
                    } else if (count == 0 && after > 1)/*emoij*/ {
                        ++length;
                    } else if (count == 0 && after == 1)/*Text*/ {
                        ++length;
                    } else if (count > 0 && after > 1) {
                        ++length;
                    }
                    if (s.length() <= 0)
                        length = 0;
                    Log.w("MainActivity", " Length: " + length);
                } else {
                    if (count > 0 && after <= 0)/*remove emoij*/ {
                        length--;
                    } else if (count > after)/*remove text*/ {
                        length--;
                    }
                    Log.w("MainActivity", " Length: " + length);
                }

                if (length == 100) {
                    editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{new InputFilter.LengthFilter(s.length())});
                } else {
                    editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{});
                }
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

    }
};

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