How to have the Character count non-visable when retuning to a page in Android Studio

So I have it set up when the character count shows when the corresponding EditText box is of focus. And not visible when the user clicks somewhere else. but when I go into a different page and then come back to the previous page, all the character count fields pop up, but then it functions back once you click on each individual field. So I would like for those character fields to stay non-visible when I return to the page from a different page.

So here's the code that's controlling the Character Count TextView.

/** Having the Character Count Box observe the state of the corresponding EditText Box*/
            itemView.date_time_add.onFocusChangeListener = View.OnFocusChangeListener { v, hasFocus ->
                if (!hasFocus) itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.GONE
                else itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.VISIBLE
            }
            itemView.cable_run_add.onFocusChangeListener = View.OnFocusChangeListener { v, hasFocus ->
                if (!hasFocus) itemView.cCount2.visibility = View.GONE
                else itemView.cCount2.visibility = View.VISIBLE
            }
            itemView.entrance_add.onFocusChangeListener = View.OnFocusChangeListener { v, hasFocus ->
                if (!hasFocus) itemView.cCount3.visibility = View.GONE
                else itemView.cCount3.visibility = View.VISIBLE
            }
            itemView.door_lock_add.onFocusChangeListener = View.OnFocusChangeListener { v, hasFocus ->
                if (!hasFocus) itemView.cCount4.visibility = View.GONE
                else itemView.cCount4.visibility = View.VISIBLE
            }
            itemView.handicap_operator_add.onFocusChangeListener = View.OnFocusChangeListener { v, hasFocus ->
                if (!hasFocus) itemView.cCount5.visibility = View.GONE
                else itemView.cCount5.visibility = View.VISIBLE
            }

            /** A custom character count feature with an EditText and TextView */
            itemView.date_time_add.addTextChangedListener(object : TextWatcher {
                override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.GONE
                }

                override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    if (s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.GONE
                    } else {
                        itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.VISIBLE
                    }
                }

                override fun afterTextChanged(s: Editable?) {
                    if (!s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount1.text = "${255 - s.length} Characters Remaining"
                    }
                    else {
                        itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.GONE
                    }
                }

            })

            itemView.cable_run_add.addTextChangedListener(object : TextWatcher {
                override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    itemView.cCount2.text = ""
                }

                override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    if (s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount2.visibility = View.GONE
                    } else {
                        itemView.cCount2.visibility = View.VISIBLE
                    }
                }

                override fun afterTextChanged(s: Editable?) {
                    if (!s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount2.text = "${255 - s.length} Characters Remaining"
                    }
                    else{
                        itemView.cCount2.visibility = View.GONE
                    }
                }

            })

            itemView.entrance_add.addTextChangedListener(object : TextWatcher {
                override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    itemView.cCount3.text = ""
                }

                override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    if (s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount3.visibility = View.GONE
                    } else {
                        itemView.cCount3.visibility = View.VISIBLE
                    }
                }

                override fun afterTextChanged(s: Editable?) {
                    if (!s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount3.text = "${255 - s.length} Characters Remaining"
                    }
                    else {
                        itemView.cCount3.visibility = View.GONE
                    }
                }

            })

            itemView.door_lock_add.addTextChangedListener(object : TextWatcher {
                override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    itemView.cCount4.text = ""
                }

                override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    if (s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount4.visibility = View.GONE
                    } else {
                        itemView.cCount4.visibility = View.VISIBLE
                    }
                }

                override fun afterTextChanged(s: Editable?) {
                    if (!s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount4.text = "${1200 - s.length} Characters Remaining"
                    }
                    else {
                        itemView.cCount4.visibility = View.GONE
                    }
                }

            })

            itemView.handicap_operator_add.addTextChangedListener(object : TextWatcher {
                override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    itemView.cCount5.text = ""
                }

                override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    if (s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount5.visibility = View.GONE
                    } else {
                        itemView.cCount5.visibility = View.VISIBLE
                    }
                }

                override fun afterTextChanged(s: Editable?) {
                    if (!s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount5.text = "${1200 - s.length} Characters Remaining"
                    }
                    else {
                        itemView.cCount5.visibility = View.GONE
                    }
                }

            })

        }
    }

For clarification: I want to achieve having the character count TextView to be non-visible when I return to that fragment that has them. For example. I am filling out a form that has the character count in it, I go to a different fragment, then come back to the fragment that has the form and the character count is now visible. I want to character count TextView to be invisible when i return to that fragment.

*having the character count invisible when the user returns to this fragment.

Any sugestions is appreciated. Thank you.

Solution

So I wasn't too far off from the solution. First setting up the onFocusChangeListener properly

itemView.date_time_add.onFocusChangeListener = View.OnFocusChangeListener { v, hasFocus ->
                if (!hasFocus) itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.INVISIBLE
                else itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.VISIBLE
            }

Here, instaded of View.GONE, I used View.INVISIBLE That seemed to work best. Then I made some changes to the `addTextChangeListener.

itemView.date_time_add.addTextChangedListener(object : TextWatcher {
                override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.INVISIBLE
                }

                @SuppressLint("SuspiciousIndentation")
                override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    if (s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.INVISIBLE
                    } else {
                        if (itemView.date_time_add.hasFocus())
                        itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.VISIBLE
                    }
                }

                override fun afterTextChanged(s: Editable?) {
                    if (!s.isNullOrEmpty()) {
                        itemView.cCount1.text = "${255 - s.length} Characters Remaining"
                    }
                    else {
                        itemView.cCount1.visibility = View.INVISIBLE
                    }
                }

            })

So instead of having checking for an empty string, I used isNullOrEmpty to check if there are characters in the String. Then changed all the visibility calls that were View.GONE to View.INVISIBLE and that's how I got it to work.