Android talk back announcing incorrect content description for TextInputLayout when the the input type of EditText is password

Question

I have a TextInputLayout with the following structure in my android app.

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">

    <EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:imeOptions="actionDone"
        android:id="@+id/mEdit"
        android:inputType="numberPassword"
        android:maxLength="4"
        android:singleLine="true"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

Here the maxLength of EditText is 4 . However, after enabling talk back if we try to edit something into the password field the talkback announces content description like Bullet, Maximum length reached even if we didn't reach the maxLength of the EditText .

Thanks in advance for your valuable thoughts.

Answer 1

Use com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText instead of using EditText in TextInputLayout .