How do we set the input type for an EditText programatically? I'm trying: mEdit.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD); it doesn't seem to have any effect.

I can display a keyboard with capital litters with: android:inputType="textCapCharacters" but can I show a number row? With android:inputType="textVisiblePassword" I can have the desired di...

I have an EditText whose inputType is numberPassword. I want to change the dot size which replaces the text. It is quite small(android default) for my purpose. I want to increase the dot size. How ...

I have an EditText set to gravity Right, so that the text starts from the right if the language is Arabic. Note: My application supports RTL, and I am not setting the TextDirection for my EditText...

How do I programmatically configure an EditText to allow: Positive or negative integer values Positive or negative decimal values I am having a hard time finding what gets this working ev...

I have an EditText field that I would like to only enter negative or positive numbers. When I use InputType.TYPE_NUMBER it will bring up the nice numeric keyboard which is what I want; however it w...

I need to removed underline when type in edit text field in Android. For the first name edit text first letter should be capital so that I have given textCapSentences, but in my case I see underlin...

I am trying to understand the difference between the textMultiLine and textImeMultiLine options for android:inputType in an EditText. However I have not been able to understand an answer. The docum...

Where can I find the values that InputType can has? I'm aware of http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/InputType.html, but how should the values look like in layout XML files?

I have created a custom EditText, and have its onDraw() function overridden. Everything was working fine (I could draw anything inside the EditText) until I wanted to change the input method for th...

I have a TextInputEditText in conjunction with TextInputLayout with android:inputType="textPassword" using app:passwordToggleEnabled="true" to show password toggle button in the TextInputEditText l...

I have a custom implementation of an edit text class. Based on these XML attribute..... android:inputType="textPersonName" android:inputType="textPersonName" android:inputType="textEmailAddress" ...

What is the purpose of inputType textShortMessage? How will this affect my application? Do certain keyboards, Android versions or applications treat this specially, or differently from just type te...

I am using this code in my xml file to show the emoji icon. android:inputType="textShortMessage|textMultiLine" I want to know if there is a way we can show the keyboard by default. Something l...

I have made a class that is responsible for monitoring an EditText widget following the Observer pattern. Its sole function is to disable or re-enable auto-correct based on a method call. I am able...

I want to show this keyboard by default on EditText focus: These actions didn't help: inputType=number inputTYpe=phone numeric=integer setRawInputType(...) How should I do it?

I am developing an android IME and I want my keyboard to work only "pan and scan" and "resize" mode, not in "fullscreen" (as explained here) or at least request to prefer the "resize" mode. I know ...

In my application I am adding edittext based on response provided by server. For each edittext server also provides regex pattern to match. I am able to successfully able to match pattern and do va...

I have a EditText component, and, of course, if you click on it, the Android keypad is shown, allowing the user to input text. As far as I know, all Android software keyboards have (at least) a let...

I have a user who owns an LG VS890 4G with Android 4.4.2. Apparently each time when he tries to insert a minus in my lat/long coordinate input EditText, his minus gets converted into a dot. He expe...

I use this code <EditText android:id="@+id/price_for_liter_value_edit_text" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="@android:color/transp...