EditText : set number of characters programmatically

Question

I have a EditText , and I would like to restrict the number of characters which could be inputted in this EditText, and make this

Answer 1

You can Use InputFilter for restricting the number of characters in EditView programmatically as:

InputFilter[] FilterArray = new InputFilter[1];
FilterArray[0] = new InputFilter.LengthFilter(10);
your_edittext.setFilters(FilterArray);

for more help you can see this tutorial for restricting number of characters in EditView:

http://www.tutorialforandroid.com/2009/02/maxlength-in-edittext-using-codes.html