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Component used: androidx.preference
Version used: 1.2.1

https://github.com/androidx/androidx/blob/9d5ec1fd4cee15670f1acea6a8bc422977187e4b/preference/preference/src/main/java/androidx/preference/EditTextPreference.java#L164

The method OnBindEditTextListener getOnBindEditTextListener()
is restricted to the package.
There is no reason why this restriction is in place.

This is a request to make it public.

As it is now, this restriction blocks a solution to https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/158864710

The preference API claims that developers can replace/customize the Dialog classes for (in this case)  the EditTextPreference.

This is doable without any problem for the ListPreference/MultiSelectListPreference

Doing the same for EditTextPreference is also not really any problem, except that we cannot access/use that listener.

I understand/guess that the preference library is a dead-end for Google, but if the above could be release we (all developers) would at least have a legal way of implementing a fix/workaround for issue  #158864710

Granted, reflection works fine here, but should not be needed IMHO when there is a simple solution to the root problem.