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Buda Gavril
Buda Gavril

Reputation: 21637

android editText max limit

After I set the max character limit for an editText using InputFilter.LengthFilter, is there a way to make editText to react at onTextChanged after it reaches the maximum number of characters? if not, is there a simple way to set a max number of characters to an editText and still react at onTextChanged event?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11202

Answers (2)

Ganapathy C
Ganapathy C

Reputation: 5999

In XML itself for EditText give the following Attrib,

  android:maxLength="20"

Upvotes: 12

Kaushik NP
Kaushik NP

Reputation: 6781

I was going through the same problem and some research on SO got me this solution. Thanks to @njzk2 for the brilliant solution. Posting it here so others can get the answer.

maxLength attribute in the EditText is actually an InputFilter, which you can write yourself and supply from code.

You can look at the implementation of InputFilter.LengthFilter, which basically returns null if there is no overflow. (see link)

WIth a little modification to that : create an extension to InputFilter.LengthFilter in which you call super and compare it to null to decide if you need to display an alert.

editText.setInputFilters(new InputFilter[] {
    new InputFilter.LengthFilter(max) {
        public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
            CharSequence res = super.filter(source, start, end, dest, dstart, dend);
            if (res != null) { // Overflow
                   Toast.makeText(this,"OVERFLOW!",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

            }
            return res;
        }
    }
});

Upvotes: 0

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