How to databind to onTextChanged for an EditText on Android?

Question

In Yigit Boyar and George Mount\'s talk on Android Databinding they illustrate how easy it is to bind to TextWatcher\'s onTextChanged (at 13:41). O

Answer 1

the best way for this is adding bind adapter and a text watcher.

public class Model{
    private TextWatcher textWatcher;

public Model(){
        this.textWatcher= getTextWatcherIns();
}

private TextWatcher getTextWatcherIns() {
        return new TextWatcher() {
            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
                //do some thing
            }

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
                //do some thing

            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
                //do some thing
            }
        };
    }

    public TextWatcher getTextWatcher() {
        return textWatcher;
    }

    public void setTextWatcher(TextWatcher textWatcher) {
        this.textWatcher = textWatcher;
    }

    @BindingAdapter("textChangedListener")
    public static void bindTextWatcher(EditText editText, TextWatcher textWatcher) {
        editText.addTextChangedListener(textWatcher);
    }
}

and in your xml add this attr to your edit text