afterTextChanged() callback being called without the text being actually changed

Question

I have a fragment with an EditText and inside the onCreateView() I add a TextWatcher to the EditText.

Each time t

Answer 1

It seems that this error comes from the fact that Android SDK will call settext when view is coming alive again to recover the state of the EditText. As you can see from the extract below there is a flag that you can change on the Edittext to bypass this behavior.

So by adding android:saveEnabled="false" on your EditText will fix the problem and the setText will not be called when view comes to foreground.

This is what I did and problem was solved.