Can we limit the number of character in edittext of SearchView in Android?

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Is there any api to set the limit no. of characters in SearchView ?

`Edittext`'s XML attribute `android:maxLength=15` will allow only 15 character. Is this only you need? — Praveenkumar, Jun 06 '12 at 12:49
This may not work... `SearchView` doesn't extend `EditText`. I know that `inputType` doesn't work on `SearchView` for some reason either. — Alex Lockwood, Jun 06 '12 at 12:51
@AlexLockwood May i know what's the `SearchView` Is that like `AutocomplteTextView` — Praveenkumar, Jun 06 '12 at 12:54
No, `AutoCompleteTextView` extends `EditText`; `SearchView` extends `LinearLayout`. The backend for `SearchView` is much more complex. Although it looks almost exactly like an `EditText`, it is much more complicated and is meant to be used with a search interface. — Alex Lockwood, Jun 06 '12 at 12:56
This might be a bit 'hackey' (is that a word?) but could you not put an edit text overtop and use textChangedWatcher to update the searchView? I know it's wouldn't be ideal but would it work? Sometimes the only way is with a bigger hammer. — cstrutton, Jun 06 '12 at 13:39
I asked a similar question [**here**](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9543620/how-to-set-a-searchviews-input-type-to-numeric) and never got an answer. This question sounds similar... so I'm not so sure if there's an easy way to do it. :/ — Alex Lockwood, Jun 07 '12 at 05:11

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 11 '16 at 11:59

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I am using following code snippet:

TextView et = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);
        et.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{new InputFilter.LengthFilter(10)});

answered Apr 11 '16 at 11:59

Alexei Volkov

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score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '13 at 09:28

Use this code it will do search only if length is less or equal to 5.You can make it change accordingly like returning true from onQueryTextChange() when text>5.

    final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) mSearchMenuItem.getActionView();     
          searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(mActivity.getSearchComponentName()));
          searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
          searchView.setSubmitButtonEnabled(true);
          searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new OnQueryTextListener() {

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                return false;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String arg0) {
                if(arg0.length()>5){
                    System.out.println("Text character is more than 5");
                    searchView.setQuery(arg0.substring(0,5), false);
                }
                return false;
            }
        });

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 22 '14 at 23:54

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EditText et = (EditText)searchView.findViewById(searchView.getContext().getResources()
            .getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null));
    et.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { new InputFilter.LengthFilter({max_text_length}) });

answered Aug 22 '14 at 23:54

Alexander Zhak

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score -5 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 11 '23 at 08:35

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In XML layout try this..

 android:maxLength="20" //20 is number of characters.

edited Apr 11 '23 at 08:35

halfer

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answered Jun 06 '12 at 13:01

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Have you seen this [Comment](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10914539/can-we-limit-the-number-of-character-in-edittext-of-searchview-in-android#comment14233570_10914539) – Praveenkumar Jun 06 '12 at 13:03
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In SearchView there is nothing to set character length. – vikash singh Jun 07 '12 at 05:06
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Search view does not have "maxLength" – Parth Anjaria Sep 27 '16 at 09:11

Can we limit the number of character in edittext of SearchView in Android?

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