UITextField Max Length in C# with Xamarin.iOS

Question

I would like to set a limit to the number of characters that can be entered into a UITextField in an iOS app to 25 characters.

According to this post, it could be done in Objective-C like this:

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string {
    NSUInteger newLength = [textField.text length] + [string length] - range.length;
    return (newLength > 25) ? NO : YES;
}

How can I do this exact same thing in C# with Xamarin.iOS?

Answer 1

This is untested, but I believe it may work:

UITextField myField;
myField.ShouldChangeCharacters = (textField, range, replacementString) => {
    var newLength = textField.Text.Length + replacementString.Length - range.Length;
    return newLength <= 25;
};

Answer 2

After 2 days working with this issue, I found out the solution for it by myself. It's working with copy/paste case. Hope it will useful.

public static bool CheckTexfieldMaxLength (UITextField textField, NSRange range, string replacementString, int maxLength)
    {

        int maxLength = 10;
        int newLength = (textField.Text.Length - (int)range.Length) + replacementString.Length;
        if (newLength <= maxLength) {
            return true;
        } else {
            if (range.Length == 0 && range.Location > 0 && replacementString.Length > 0 && textField.Text.Length >= maxLength)
                return false;

            int emptySpace = maxLength - (textField.Text.Length - (int)range.Length);

            textField.Text = textField.Text.Substring (0, (int)range.Location)
            + replacementString.Substring (0, emptySpace)
            + textField.Text.Substring ((int)range.Location + (int)range.Length, emptySpace >= maxLength ? 0 : (maxLength - (int)range.Location - emptySpace));
            return false;
        }
    }