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Limit text length of EditText in Android

I am a textView on Activity, which is being displayed as per the parameter it is receiving from the JSON response, I need to restrict it to 12 characters only.

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textViewName"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/includeheadersetting"
    android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:text="Name"
    android:textColor="#000000"
    android:textStyle="bold" />

Answer 1

Use android:maxLength="12" to limit the text length

 <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textViewName"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@+id/includeheadersetting"
            android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="Name"
            android:maxLength="12"
            android:textColor="#000000"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

You can also use another property as follows:

android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"

Using this property “…” will be added end of the text as follows:

“Hello How are …” instead of “Hello How are you?”