Getting character count of EditText

Question

I\'m trying to get a character count of an EditText. I\'ve looked into different properties of the EditText and TextView classes, but there doesn\'t seem to be a function th

Answer 1

In Kotlin it's very easy

<EditText_name>.Text.length

Answer 2

Just grab the text in the EditText as a string and check its length:

int length = editText.getText().length();

Answer 3

EditText edittext;
private final TextWatcher mTextEditorWatcher = new TextWatcher() {

        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

        }

        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
           //This sets a textview to the current length
           textview.setText(String.valueOf(s.length());
        }

        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
        }
};
 editText.addTextChangedListener(mTextEditorWatcher);