What's the best way to limit text length of EditText in Android

Question

What\'s the best way to limit the text length of an EditText in Android?

Is there a way to do this via xml?

Answer 1

XML

android:maxLength="10"

Programmatically:

int maxLength = 10;
InputFilter[] filters = new InputFilter[1];
filters[0] = new InputFilter.LengthFilter(maxLength);
yourEditText.setFilters(filters);

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Note: internally, EditText & TextView parse the value of android:maxLength in XML and use InputFilter.LengthFilter() to apply it.

See: TextView.java#L1564