Limit Characters EditText

TIP: How to limit the number of characters the user can enter in an EditText widget.

Given:

private EditText   editTextPassword= (EditText)findViewById(R.id.EditTextPassword);

private int        lengthPassword= 8;

You can limit the number of characters the user can input by applying an input filter:

        // limit input length of password in editText

        InputFilter[] filter = new InputFilter[1];

        filter[0] = new InputFilter.LengthFilter(lengthPassword);

        editTextPassword.setFilters(filter);