title: Getting character count of EditText
body: <p>I'm trying to get a character count of an EditText. I've looked into different properties of the EditText and TextView classes, but there doesn't seem to be a function that returns the amount of characters. I have tried to use the TextWatcher, but that is not ideal since sometimes I load a saved message into the EditText from the preferences, and TextWatcher does not count characters not typed right then.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be great! </p>
  
  <p>Cheers!</p>