Android: stack overflow error on EditText TextChangedListener

Question

I get the StackOverflow error running this particular code:

litera.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher(){
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after){}
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count){
                String ghici = litera.getText().toString();
                System.out.println(ghici);
                litera.setText("");
            }

        }); 

I commented each line at a time and I found out that the culprit is the litera.setText(""); line, the others work normally. I've used it before and it baffles me why a particularly simple instruction causes such a bad error... The rest of the error messages are about "android.view.ViewGroup.addFocusables(ViewGroup.java:637)" and others, but I doubt they are conclusive.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

u have to use this way

 litera.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher(){
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after){}
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count){
            String strEnteredVal = litera.getText().toString();
            if(!strEnteredVal.equals("")){
            System.out.println(strEnteredVal);
            litera.setText("");
            }
        }

    });