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

Clear way;

abstract class CharacterWatcher : TextWatcher {
    override fun afterTextChanged(text: Editable?) {
        afterCharacterChanged(text?.lastOrNull(), text?.length)
    }

    override fun beforeTextChanged(text: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, before: Int) {}

    override fun onTextChanged(text: CharSequence?, start: Int, before: Int, count: Int) {}

    abstract fun afterCharacterChanged(char: Char?, count: Int?)
}



 editText.addTextChangedListener(new CharacterWatcher() {
            @Override
            public void afterCharacterChanged(@Nullable Character character, @Nullable Integer count) {
                action()
            }
        });