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

From material.io, you can use TextInputEditText combined with TextInputLayout:

You can configure a password EditText with drawable:

Or you can limit text length with/without a counter:

Dependency:

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.1.0-alpha02'