How do you set the max number of characters for an EditText in Android?

Asked 2011-05-20T00:10:52.920

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How do you set the max number of characters for an Android EditText input? I see setMaxLines, setMaxEMS, but nothing for the number of characters.

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In XML you can add this line to the EditText View where 140 is the maximum number of characters:

android:maxLength="140"

answered 2011-08-02T14:30:58.950