android - How to Get EditText maxLength setting in code

Question

I would like to see the maxLength of an EditText at run time to be able to make a text display decision.
Is that possible?

Here is a description of what I wan't to do.

I have a ListView with many rows and each row have an EditText and a TextView.
I've made a subclass of ArrayAdapter to be able to feed the String that I want to place in the EditText of each row.
I have set android:maxLength="12" in the XML file.
I want to display a number in that EditText field, but if the number I want to display has more than android:maxLength="12" I want to display an "error message" instead.

And I would prefer not to hard code that 12 in my subclass of ArrayAdapter.

There is probably a simple solution, but I haven't found it yet.
(android first time...)

Answer 1

This should work:

editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { new InputFilter.LengthFilter(12) });