How to keep the Character Count Text View Blank when an Edit text is empty in Android Studio

So I already figured out how to have the word count show during the user typing inside the EditText, but Now I want the character count to be blank when there is no characters in the text field.

Here's a pick of what I am talking about.

And here's the code that is connecting the word count to the Edit Text

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

                override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, end: Int) {
                    if (s.isNullOrEmpty()){
                        itemView.cCount1.text = ""
                    }
                }

                override fun afterTextChanged(s: Editable?) {
                    if (s != null) {
                        itemView.cCount1.text = "${225 - s.length} Characters Remaining"
                    }
                }

            } )

Any ideas is welcomed, thank you.

To hide or show the View you can use .visibility property. To show you can use View.VISIBLE, and to hide View.GONE or View.INVISIBLE

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
    }
}

Reference for more details: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View#setVisibility(int)