Is there any way to set the width of an EditText in characters?

Wouldn't just trimming the string work?

Text(
  text = myString.take(limit)
)

Sorry, by text field I meant EditText

oh sorry, my mistake 🤦‍♂️ Again similarly you have the ability to ignore anything longer than what you want

var text by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
TextField(
  value = text,
  onValueChange = {
    text = it.take(limit)
  }
)

Yeah, but I want to set the visible width such that it wraps the amount of text in the EditText. As in if

value = "0.000"

I don't want a bunch of whitespace on the right, I want it to end after the last 0

Hmm, that's an interesting challenge. Your best bet might be

onTextLayout

and figuring out how much space your TextField should allocate.

Thanks for the suggestion. It's good to know there's no great solution. If it's numbers with sane fonts I think I can rely on the fact 1em is slightly larger than the width of a zero, so that might work