Android密码字段-输入始终隐藏

Question

As most of you know, at the moment, the password field works in a way that it hides the input, but not right away. As you input a character, it shows that character, then a moment later turns it into a * , I'm wondering if there's a way to incorporate a functionality that makes the characters stars at all times.

Any ways of doing this?

Answer 1

Don't set the default edit text property as password. Instead, you can use addTextChangedListener() which will get called as soon as the user enters a character. Maintain an activity level string say "mPass". In the TextWatcher() , onTextChanged method, append character to your mPass and replace the input character by *.

But you will have to be careful regarding this because application will pass control to the TextWatcher() even after you have replaced the character by *. If not handled properly it will get called recursively causing the application to crash.

Credit to Pallavi